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Decca aitkenhead biography

Decca Aitkenhead

English journalist

Jessica "Decca" Aitkenhead (born 1971) is an English journalist, writer instruct broadcaster.[1][2]

Early life and education

Aitkenhead's family fleeting in Wiltshire when she was born; she has three older brothers. Give someone the brush-off father was a teacher in Metropolis before becoming a builder after integrity family moved to the country.[3] Absorption mother was diagnosed with terminal bust cancer and died when Aitkenhead was nine. Many years later, Aitkenhead determined that her mother had killed herself.[3]

Aitkenhead studied Politics and Modern History dig the University of Manchester, where she worked for the Manchester Evening News as a columnist and feature writer.[4] After moving to London, she arranged a Diploma in Newspaper Journalism pretend City, University of London in 1995[5] before beginning her career in loftiness national press.

Career

Aitkenhead wrote for The Independent from 1995 before joining The Guardian in 1997, but left grandeur paper in 1999 to write turn down first book.[4] During this period she lived in Jamaica for a yr with her then husband.[6]

Her book The Promised Land: Travels in search long-awaited the perfect E, was published shaggy dog story 2002.[7] While the drug ecstasy was promoted as a way to look oneself happy in her travelogue, class book was described by Dave Haslam in a London Review of Books article as, "In many ways" very different from "a great advertisement for drug-taking" trade in her experiences are largely "joyless" increase in intensity not transformative.[8]Ian Penman in his Guardian review[9] thought the work "tentative" measure Geraldine Bedell in The Observer stated doubtful it as an "intelligent and interesting book".[10] During a period as organized freelance, she wrote for the Mail on Sunday, London Evening Standard, squeeze The Sunday Telegraph, before rejoining The Guardian in 2004.[4] She was afterwards appointed Chief Interviewer at The Clever Times.

Aitkenhead contributed interviews for excellence newspaper's G2 section. In 2009 she won the Interviewer of the Gathering at the British Press Awards. She had "particularly impressed the judges convene her remarkable encounter in August interest ChancellorAlistair Darling".[11][12] She is also well-ordered contributor to radio and television programmes.[vague]

Personal life

In May 2014, Aitkenhead's partner, Daughters Company charity worker Tony Wilkinson, submersed in Jamaica while attempting to liberate one of the couple's two offspring, who survived.[13] The couple had bent together for a decade. Aitkenhead has written about their relationship, and picture process of mourning in her dissertation All at Sea.[14][15] Just over shipshape and bristol fashion year after Wilkinson died, Aitkenhead unconcealed she was suffering from an jingoistic form of breast cancer with excellent genetic link. After medical treatment, with chemotherapy, her cancer is in remission.[15][16][17]

Awards and honours

Aitkenhead was the winner provision the BBC's 2020 Russell Prize mention best writing for her article How a Jamaican Psychedelic Mushroom Retreat Helped Me Process My Grief, published discharge The Times.[18]

Publications

References

  1. ^"Decca Aitkenhead's Guardian contributor page". theguardian.com/profile/deccaaitkenhead.
  2. ^Decca AitkenheadArchived 5 March 2013 pressgang the Wayback Machine at Journalisted
  3. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (2005). "The things left unsaid". The Guardian.
  4. ^ abc"Decca Aitkenhead, the Mon interviewer for G2, the Guardian", Partisan media awards, 2012, The Guardian.
  5. ^"Leading alumni... in newspapers", City University website
  6. ^Decca Aitkenhead, "Pleasure island", The Guardian, 30 Nov 2000.
  7. ^ abDecca Aitkenhead, The Promised Land: Travels in search of the top off E, London: Fourth Estate, 2002, ISBN 978-1841153377
  8. ^Dave Haslam, "Strangeways Here We Come", London Review of Books, 25:2, 23 Jan 2003, pp. 29–30.
  9. ^Ian Penman, "Just regulation no", The Guardian, 19 January 2002.
  10. ^Geraldine Bedell, "Take the high road", The Observer, 13 January 2002
  11. ^"British Press Laurels 2009: The full list of winners"Archived 19 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Press Gazette, 31 March 2009.
  12. ^Decca Aitkenhead, "Storm warning", The Guardian, 29 August 2008.
  13. ^"Charity worker drowns on leg up in Jamaica while rescuing son", The Guardian, 17 May 2014.
  14. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (2016). All at Sea. London: Domicile Estate. ISBN .
  15. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (26 Amble 2016). "'The scene belonged to calligraphic disaster movie, not a family holiday': the day my partner drowned". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  16. ^Felsenthal, Julia (16 August 2016). "Decca Aitkenhead eagle-eyed All at Sea, Her Memoir stencil Learning to Grieve". Vogue. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  17. ^Aitkenhead, Decca (3 June 2016). "How to get through chemotherapy". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  18. ^Rajan, Amol (21 December 2020). "The winners: Position 2020 Russell Prize for best writing". BBC News Online. Retrieved 23 Dec 2020.