Iain Aitch is an English writer, journalist and artist who lives in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

. He is the author of the travel book ''A Fête Worse Than Death,'' a humorous first person journey through an English summer, and ''We're British, Innit,'' a humorous lexicon about Britain. He has contributed to at least ten more titles. He writes articles for ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'' and ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was found ...

'' and has also written for a diverse selection of magazines, including '' Dwell'', '' Bizarre'', ''

Dazed ''Dazed'' (''Dazed & Confused'' until February 2014) is a quarterly British lifestyle magazine founded in 1991. It covers music, fashion, film, art, and literature. ''Dazed'' is published by Dazed Media, an independent media group known for produ ...

'' and '' The Idler''. Aitch was born in

Margate Margate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay, UK, Palm Bay and W ...

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

and has written extensively about the area and its people. In 2011, he undertook a residency with the newly opened

Turner Contemporary Turner Contemporary is an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England, intended as a contemporary arts space and catalyst for the regeneration of the town. The title commemorates the association of the town with noted landscape painter J. M. W. Turne ...

gallery, creating a photographic exhibit that was shown in the Margate gallery's Nothing in the World But Youth show and featured in its exhibition catalogue.

References

External links

Iain Aitch's website
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081205162708/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/04/14/smweiss14.xml&page=1 Interview with Shangri-Las singer Mary Weiss in Daily Telegraphbr>Iain Aitch learns to dance: A Guardian readers' article of the year
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