Nigel Farndale

Nigel Farndale (born September 30, 1964) is a British author and journalist, known for his award-winning interviews in the Sunday Telegraph.

He has written five books: two novels, two biographies and a collection of interviews. His novel The Blasphemer was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards and selected for the Richard and Judy Spring Book Club 2011.^[1][2]His biography Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce was published by Macmillan in 2005 and shortlisted for that year’s Whitbread Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Farndale grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, was educated at Barnard Castle School, read philosophy for a master's degree at Durham University and worked as a farmer before becoming a journalist — he wrote an abusive letter to Auberon Waugh, who then asked him to write for Literary Review.^[3] He was a contributor to various papers and magazines after that, among them the Sunday Times, Country Life and Spectator.

Since 1995, he has been a regular feature writer and columnist for the Sunday Telegraph. His interview subjects for that paper include Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, Woody Allen, the Dalai Lama, Prince Charles, Hillary Clinton, Paul McCartney, George Best and Stephen Hawking. He has won a British Press Award for his interviews, and three commendations for them.^[4] In 2005, he was the joint subject of a programme about interviewing on Radio 4 — he and Lynn Barber compared notes on Between Ourselves.

He is married with three sons and lives on the border between Hampshire and Sussex.

Publications

• The Blasphemer. London, 2010. ISBN 0385617798
• Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce. London, 2005. ISBN 0333989929
• Flirtation, Seduction, Betrayal: Interviews with Heroes and Villains. London, 2002. ISBN 1841196444
• Last Action Hero of the British Empire: Commander John Kerans 1915–1985. London, 2001. ISBN 0571208258
• A Sympathetic Hanging. London, 2000. ISBN 0704381419

References

1. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7083374/The-Blasphemer-by-Nigel-Farndale-review-DOUBLEDAY-12.99-425pp.html
2. ^ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/83524-page.html#Comment
3. ^ "The season's grievings", Sunday Telegraph, Nigel Farndale, 31 December 2006
4. ^ "Best of British press rewarded", BBC News, 22 March 2000

External links

• www.nigelfarndale.com
• Sunday Telegraph
• Journalisted — Articles by Nigel Farndale

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