Hugh McIlvanney
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Hugh McIlvanney OBE (born 2 February 1934 in Kilmarnock, Scotland) is an award-winning, Scottish sports writer. He currently has a long-running column on the back page of The Sunday Times sports section.
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[edit] Journalism career
McIlvanney left Kilmarnock Academy to work at The Kilmarnock Standard[1] as a reporter moving on to the Scottish Daily Express, The Scotsman, The Observer, Daily Express, before joining The Sunday Times in 1993.[2] During his time with the Daily Express he also wrote as a news reporter.[2]
[edit] Honours
In 1996, McIlvanney was awarded the OBE, was given the Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 by The Scottish Press Awards,[3] and is the only sports writer to be voted Journalist of the Year. In 2005, he was included in the Press Gazette Hall of Fame.[2]
In December 2008 he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame,[4] and he was inducted in 1999.[3]
[edit] Personal life
McIlvanney's brother is the novelist and crime fiction writer William McIlvanney. He has one son, Conn and a daughter Elizabeth.
[edit] Works
- McIlvanney On Boxing (1982), ISBN 1-84018-005-6
- McIlvanney On Football (1994), ISBN 1-84018-007-2
- McIlvanney On Horseracing (1995 co-written with Peter O'Sullevan), ISBN 1-84018-006-4
- Managing My Life (1999 (co-written with Alex Ferguson), ISBN 978-0-340-72856-7[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Hugh McIlvanney (b.1934)". Kilmarnock Academy. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "Hugh McIlvanney: A giant among sporting greats". The Independent. 5 December 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
- ^ a b "Hugh McIlvanney". International Boxing Hall of Fame. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ "Lewis, others to be inducted into Hall of Fame". ESPN. Associated Press. 9 December 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
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