Ian Grant Jack FRSL was a British reporter, writer and editor.
13 Facts About Ian Jack
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Ian Jack edited the Independent on Sunday, the literary magazine Granta and wrote regularly for The Guardian.
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Ian Jack's mother, Isabella, was born in Kirkcaldy and brought up in Hill of Beath, and his father Henry was born in Dunfermline.
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Ian Jack grew up in North Queensferry and was educated there and at Dunfermline High School.
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Ian Jack contributed regularly to The Guardian from 2001, and began to write a weekly column for the paper six years later.
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Ian Jack occasionally taught at the India Institute, King's College London.
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In 2009, Ian Jack published a collection of essays and previously unpublished writings entitled The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain.
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Ian Jack's awards included Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Editor of the Year.
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Ian Jack was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Ian Jack married Aparna Bagchi in 1979; the couple divorced in 1992.
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Ian Jack lived in Highbury, London, with his second wife, Lindy Sharpe.
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Ian Jack's paternal grandmother was born in India and lived with his grandfather in the now-demolished mining village of Lassodie, between Dunfermline and Kelty.
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Ian Jack died in Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 28 October 2022, after a short illness, aged 77.