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This article is about a British journalist and author. For the Canadian politician and attorney, see Jack Fairweather (politician).

Jack Fairweather (born in 1978), is a British journalist and award-winning author.

Early life

Fairweather was born in Wales in 1978 to Rufus and Cherry Fairweather. He has three younger siblings.[1] He was educated at Atlantic College and Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford.[2]

Career

Fairweather was a war correspondent embedded with British troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad, where he met his wife, New York Times journalist Christina Asquith.[2] Fairweather survived an attempted kidnapping and an attempted suicide bombing.[2]

He later covered the war in Afghanistan for The Washington Post.[2] His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation.[3][4] His book The Volunteer, a biography about Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, won the 2019 Costa Book Award.[5][6]

Books

  • The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan, by Jack Fairweather, (Basic Books, 2014)[7][8][9]
  • A War of Choice: the British in Iraq 2003-9 (Vintage, 2012)[10][11][12]

Awards

The Good War was a finalist for the 2015 Lionel Gelber Prize.[15]

The Volunteer won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2019.[16]

References

  1. ^ https://www.192.com/atoz/people/fairweather/rufus/sy15/1342049656/
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ http://jackfairweather.com/author.shtml
  4. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?
  5. ^ "'Lost' story of Auschwitz hero wins Costa Prize". BBC News. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Mallet, Victor (5 December 2014). "The Good War (book review)". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "How the West Failed Afghanistan (book review)". New Statesman. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  10. ^ "A War of Choice (brief review)". The Independent. 6 October 2012.
  11. ^ Hastings, Max (23 October 2011). "A War of Choice (book review)". The Times. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  12. ^ Rayment, Sean (6 January 2012). "A War of Choice: the British in Iraq 2003-9 (book review)". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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  14. ^ "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.
  15. ^ Wittmeyer, Alicia Q. (25 March 2015). "Introducing the 2015 Lionel Gelber Finalists. Today's Nominee: Jack Fairweather". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  16. ^ https://www.costa.co.uk/behind-the-beans/costa-book-awards/book-awards
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