Iain Hollingshead (born 1980) is a British freelance

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and

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. Iain writes feature articles for a range of publications, ''

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'' in particular. He also wrote a regular column called Loose Ends in Saturday's '' Guardian''. He has taken part in a number of radio shows, including

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's ''Today'' programme and '' You and Yours''. His father is a GP and his mother is a teacher. He has one elder brother. Iain graduated from

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

in 2003 with a first class degree in History. He worked for a year in

Westminster Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in Central London, Central London, England. It extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street and has many famous landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, ...

- at Vote 2004 and the private office of Michael 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". Iain was runner-up in the Guardian Student Media Awards as Columnist of the Year. While at university he also founded and edited The Cambridge Slapper - a popular satirical magazine. Iain is currently working as a History and Politics teacher at

Dulwich College Dulwich College is a 2-18 private, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a public school, it began as the College of God's Gift, founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, with the original purpose of ...

. Iain has written a musical called 'The End of History' which is showing at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden in Novembe
2017

Works

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 infamous literary Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which he accepted in person announcing "I hope to win it every year". He is the youngest author to have won the somewhat dubious honour. This book has also been translated into Vietnamese by Le Thu Thuy, under the title "Tung qua tuoi hai muoi tong mui shacs sli now", and was well received by young Vietnamese readers. Overall the novel was well received, drawing critics' comparison with Sue Townsend, Helen Fielding and Tony Parsons. Iain wrote the

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and

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for the

satirical Satire is a genre of the visual arts, visual, literature, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently Nonfiction, non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ...

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'' Blair on Broadway'', first performed in October 1946 at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury. He is currently working on his second novel, and has a three-book deal to write fictionalised spin-offs of the TV series '' Spooks''.

Awards

Iain was listed as one of the E.S. Magazine's top '50 Brit Young Things' of 2006.

References

External links

Official Site
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