Ian Penman was born on 1959 and is a British writer, music journalist and critic.
11 Facts About Ian Penman
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Ian Penman is the author of Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias.
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Ian Penman spent much of his childhood abroad in the Middle East and Africa, returning to Norfolk in 1970.
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Much of Ian Penman's writing reflected his involvement in the nascent post-punk scene developing in London in the late 1970s.
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Ian Penman continued writing intermittently for the NME until 1985, when the magazine began moving in an increasingly commercial direction.
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Ian Penman began freelance work for various outlets, including The Face, Arena, the Sunday Times, The Independent, and the New Statesman.
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In 1998, Ian Penman published a compilation of his work entitled Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Mania on Serpent's Tail to positive reviews.
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Full of contradictions and witty one-liners, Ian Penman uses language as an art form, playing with puns, synonyms, repetition, and punctuation for added effect.
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In recent years, Ian Penman has continued contributing to various publications, such as The Wire, City Journal and the London Review of Books, and is working on a book about Britain in the 1970s.
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Ian Penman was joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors.
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Ian Penman has been cited as an influence by range of writers and theorists, including Simon Reynolds, Kodwo Eshun, and Mark Fisher.