Jack Fairweather (born in 1978), is a British journalist and author.
Early life
Fairweather was born in Shrewsbury, England in 1978.[1] His sister, Chloé Fairweather, directed Dying to Divorce, a film selected as the British entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards in 2021.[2][3] He was educated at Atlantic College, and at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.[4]
Career
Fairweather was a freelance correspondent embedded with British troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was a stringer for The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad, where he met his wife Christina Asquith, a journalist working on contract to cover education issues in Iraq for New York Times.[4] Fairweather claims he survived an attempted kidnapping and an attempted suicide bombing in Iraq.[4]
He later contributed freelance articles from Afghanistan to the PostGlobal blog hosted by The Washington Post.[4] His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation.[5] His book The Volunteer, a biography about Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz during the Holocaust and Second World War, won the 2019 Costa Book Award.[6][7]
Books
- A War of Choice: the British in Iraq 2003-9 (Vintage, 2012)[8][9][10]
- The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan, by Jack Fairweather, (Basic Books, 2014)[11][12][13]
- The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust (Custom House, 2019)[4][14][15]
Awards
The Good War was a finalist for the 2015 Lionel Gelber Prize.[16]
The Volunteer won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2019.[5]
References
- ^ "Costa Book Awards 2019: Category Winners Announced". Costa. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Divorce
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13234764/
- ^ a b c d e Picard, Ken (19 June 2019). "Jack Fairweather Writes Story of Unsung Hero at Auschwitz". Seven Days. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ a b Christian, Bonnie (28 January 2020). "Jack Fairweather wins Costa Book of the Year with The Volunteer". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "'Lost' story of Auschwitz hero wins Costa Prize". BBC News. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ Bakare, Lanre (28 January 2020). "Costa prize: Jack Fairweather wins book of the year with The Volunteer". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "A War of Choice (brief review)". The Independent. 6 October 2012.
- ^ Hastings, Max (23 October 2011). "A War of Choice (book review)". The Times. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Rayment, Sean (6 January 2012). "A War of Choice: the British in Iraq 2003-9 (book review)". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Mallet, Victor (5 December 2014). "The Good War (book review)". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Farmer, Ben (4 December 2014). "The Good War: the Battle for Afghanistan 2006–14; book review: 'sobering and riveting'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "How the West Failed Afghanistan (book review)". New Statesman. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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- ^ "The man who volunteered for Auschwitz: New bio explores extraordinary life of hero who exposed Holocaust horrors". THEfirstNEWS. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ Wittmeyer, Alicia Q. (25 March 2015). "Introducing the 2015 Lionel Gelber Finalists. Today's Nominee: Jack Fairweather". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 26 June 2019.