- Iain Hollingshead
Iain Hollingshead (born
October 31 ,1980 ) is a Britishfreelance journalist andnovelist .Iain writes feature articles for a range of publications,
The Daily Telegraph in particular. Until recently, he also wrote a regular column called Loose Ends in Saturday's "Guardian". He has taken part in a number of radio shows, includingBBC Radio 4 's "Today" programme and "You and Yours ".Iain graduated from
Cambridge University in 2003 with a first class degree inHistory . He worked for a year inWestminster - atVote 2004 and the private office ofMichael Howard - before pursuing a full-time career as a journalist. Vote 2004 was described in the "Sunday Telegraph " as the "most successful political campaign of all time". Fact|date=January 2008Iain was runner-up in the
Guardian Student Media Awards as Columnist of the Year. [ [http://media.guardian.co.uk/studentmediaawards/story/0,,1164636,00.html Trebles all round | Education | The Guardian ] ] While at university he also founded and edited The Cambridge Slapper - a popular satirical magazine.His first novel, "Twenty Something: The Quarter-life Crisis of Jack Lancaster" was published in 2006 by
Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd . The book won him the 2006 infamous literaryBad Sex in Fiction Award , which he accepted in person announcing "I hope to win it every year". [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6157405.stm BBC NEWS | Entertainment | First timer takes bad sex award ] ] He is the youngest author to have won the somewhat dubious honour.Overall the novel was well received, drawing critics' comparison with
Sue Townsend ,Helen Fielding andTony Parsons .Fact|date=January 2008Iain was listed as one of the
E.S. Magazine ’s top '50 Brit Young Things' of 2006. He is currently working on his second novel, and has a three-book deal to write fictionalised spin-offs of the TV series "Spooks".Fact|date=January 2008Iain wrote the book and
lyric s for the satirical musical "Blair on Broadway ", first performed in October 2007 at theHen and Chickens Theatre inHighbury .References
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Quarter-life crisis
*Bad Sex in Fiction Award External links
* [http://www.iainhollingshead.co.uk Official Site]
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