Decca aitkenhead biography

Decca Aitkenhead

English journalist

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

Early life put up with education

Aitkenhead's family lived in Wiltshire when she was born; she has three older brothers.

Bring about father was a teacher expose Bristol before becoming a benefactor after the family moved restrain the country.[3] Her mother was diagnosed with terminal breast growth and died when Aitkenhead was nine. Many years later, Aitkenhead discovered that her mother confidential killed herself.[3]

Aitkenhead studied Politics put forward Modern History at the Establishment of Manchester, where she sham for the Manchester Evening News as a columnist and direction writer.[4] After moving to Author, she completed a Diploma slot in Newspaper Journalism at City, Creation of London in 1995[5] once beginning her career in high-mindedness national press.

Career

Aitkenhead wrote let slip The Independent from 1995 previously joining The Guardian in 1997, but left the paper expansion 1999 to write her principal book.[4] During this period she lived in Jamaica for uncluttered year with her then husband.[6]

Her book The Promised Land: Journey in search of the shoddy E, was published in 2002.[7] While the drug ecstasy was promoted as a way allot make oneself happy in throw away travelogue, the book was stated doubtful by Dave Haslam in a- London Review of Books cancel as, "In many ways" pule "a great advertisement for drug-taking" as her experiences are particularly "joyless" and not transformative.[8]Ian Scribe in his Guardian review[9] become skilled at the work "tentative" while Geraldine Bedell in The Observer designated it as an "intelligent countryside absorbing book".[10] During a generation as a freelance, she wrote for the Mail on Sunday, London Evening Standard, and The Sunday Telegraph, before rejoining The Guardian in 2004.[4] She was subsequently appointed Chief Interviewer shock defeat The Sunday Times.

Aitkenhead wilful interviews for the newspaper's G2 section. In 2009 she won the Interviewer of the Yr at the British Press Brownie points. She had "particularly impressed ethics judges with her remarkable meet in August with ChancellorAlistair Darling".[11][12] She is also a donator to radio and television programmes.[vague]

Personal life

In May 2014, Aitkenhead's husband, Kids Company charity worker Posh Wilkinson, drowned in Jamaica dimension attempting to rescue one senior the couple's two sons, who survived.[13] The couple had antique together for a decade.

Aitkenhead has written about their rapport, and the process of sadness in her memoir All unconscious Sea.[14][15] Just over a crop after Wilkinson died, Aitkenhead revealed she was suffering from exceeding aggressive form of breast neoplasm with a genetic link. Afterwards medical treatment, including chemotherapy, supreme cancer is in remission.[15][16][17]

Awards submit honours

Aitkenhead was the winner in shape the BBC's 2020 Russell Award for best writing for dismiss article How a Jamaican Brilliant Mushroom Retreat Helped Me Dispute My Grief, published in The Times.[18]

Publications

References

  1. ^"Decca Aitkenhead's Guardian contributor page".

    theguardian.com/profile/deccaaitkenhead.

  2. ^Decca AitkenheadArchived 5 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine move away Journalisted
  3. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (2005). "The things left unsaid". The Guardian.
  4. ^ abc"Decca Aitkenhead, the Monday investigator for G2, the Guardian", Proselyte media awards, 2012, The Guardian.
  5. ^"Leading alumni...

    in newspapers", City Academia website

  6. ^Decca Aitkenhead, "Pleasure island", The Guardian, 30 November 2000.
  7. ^ abDecca Aitkenhead, The Promised Land: Voyage in search of the absolute E, London: Fourth Estate, 2002, ISBN 978-1841153377
  8. ^Dave Haslam, "Strangeways Here Awe Come", London Review of Books, 25:2, 23 January 2003, pp.

    29–30.

  9. ^Ian Penman, "Just say no", The Guardian, 19 January 2002.
  10. ^Geraldine Bedell, "Take the high road", The Observer, 13 January 2002
  11. ^"British Press Awards 2009: The brimming list of winners"Archived 19 Sept 2012 at the Wayback Putting to death, Press Gazette, 31 March 2009.
  12. ^Decca Aitkenhead, "Storm warning", The Guardian, 29 August 2008.
  13. ^"Charity worker drowns on holiday in Jamaica linctus rescuing son", The Guardian, 17 May 2014.
  14. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (2016).

    All at Sea. London: Favour Estate. ISBN .

  15. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (26 March 2016). "'The scene belonged to a disaster movie, remote a family holiday': the date my partner drowned". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  16. ^Felsenthal, Julia (16 August 2016).

    "Decca Aitkenhead on All at Sea, Have a lot to do with Memoir of 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: The 2020 Russell Cherish for best writing".

    BBC Intelligence Online. Retrieved 23 December 2020.