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Ian Jack

January 01, 1970

For the British academic, see Ian Jack (literary scholar). For the Australian historian, see R. Ian Jack.

Ian Grant Jack FRSL (7 February 1945 – 28 October 2022) was a British reporter, writer and editor. He edited the Independent on Sunday, the literary magazine Granta and wrote regularly for The Guardian.

Ian Jack
FRSL
Jack and Brigid Keenan at PalFest 2008
Born(1945-02-07)7 February 1945
Farnworth, Lancashire, England
Died28 October 2022(2022-10-28) (aged 77)
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • editor
  • author
Years active1965–2022
Spouses
Aparna Bagchi
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​
(m. 1979; div. 1992)​
Rosalind Sharpe
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(m. 1998)​
Children2

Early life edit

Jack was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, on 7 February 1945,[1] to parents who had migrated from Fife in 1930. Jack's mother, Isabella (née Gillespie), was born in Kirkcaldy and brought up in Hill of Beath,[2] and his father Henry was born in Dunfermline. The family returned to Scotland when he was seven, in 1952.[3][4] He grew up in North Queensferry and was educated there and at Dunfermline High School.[1]

Career edit

After a false start as a would-be librarian,[5] Jack joined The Glasgow Herald as a trainee journalist in 1965.[3] After a short spell in its head office he was sent to work on two weekly papers in Lanarkshire, the now-defunct Cambuslang Advertiser and the East Kilbride News.[6] Later he worked for the Scottish Daily Express at its Glasgow offices.[7] In 1970, he joined The Sunday Times in London, where he became a section editor and then a foreign correspondent-cum-feature writer with a special interest in South Asia and particularly India, which he began to visit in the mid-1970s. From 1986 to 1989, he wrote for The Observer and Vanity Fair,[8] and then joined the team that created The Independent on Sunday, which he edited from 1991 to 1995.[9][10] His editorship of the quarterly Granta magazine, to which he had previously contributed as a writer, spanned 47 issues over twelve years to 2007.[11] While at Granta, Jack also commissioned and edited books by Diana Athill, Simon Gray, Janet Malcolm and Travis Elborough, among others. He contributed regularly to The Guardian from 2001, and began to write a weekly column for the paper six years later.[3][12] He occasionally taught at the India Institute, King's College London.[13]

In 2009, Jack published a collection of essays and previously unpublished writings entitled The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain.[14][15] One reviewer wrote of Jack's handling of time in this book: "He is up there with a fiction writer such as Alice Munro in his grasp of its ebb and flow, his awareness that its strong but rapidly changing currents often leave us wondering not only what we can remember, but what we should."[16] Alexander Chancellor called the book "superb", and added: "Collections of columns and newspaper articles are not usually a very good idea. They quickly become stale and dated, and one sometimes wonders what the point of them is except to deceive journalists into thinking that their ephemeral scribblings deserve some permanence. Jack is an exception to the rule."[17] The Economist wrote: "At the heart of the book are three magnificent essays, about the Hatfield train crash of 2000; the sinking of the Titanic and the film Titanic (1997); and the lost cinemas of Farnworth, Mr Jack's home town, which is also a circuitous epitaph for a lost brother. His contributions to 'this unequal struggle to preserve and remember' cumulatively transcend journalism and attain the status of literature."[18]

Jack's awards included Journalist of the Year (Granada TV's What the Papers Say award, 1985), Reporter of the Year (British Press Awards, 1988) and Editor of the Year (Newspaper Industry Awards, 1993). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[19]

In 2011, London's National Portrait Gallery purchased a portrait of Jack by photographer Denis Waugh for its permanent collection.[20]

Personal life and death edit

Jack married Aparna Bagchi in 1979; the couple divorced in 1992.[3] He lived in Highbury, London,[21] with his second wife, Lindy Sharpe.[3] They had two children,[3] and spent a part of every year on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde.[22][23]

Jack's paternal grandmother was born in India[24] and lived with his grandfather in the now-demolished mining village of Lassodie, between Dunfermline and Kelty.[25][26]

Jack died in Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 28 October 2022, after a short illness, aged 77.[3]

Bibliography as author edit

  • Jack, Ian (1987). Before the Oil Ran Out: Britain 1977–86. London: Secker & Warburg. ISBN 0-436-22020-2.
  • —— (2001). The Crash that Stopped Britain. London: Granta. ISBN 1-86207-468-2. (originally from Granta 73)
  • —— (2009). The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-08735-3.
  • —— (2013). Mofussil Junction. New Delhi: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-670-08644-3.

Bibliography as editor/contributor edit

  • Athill, Diana (2009). Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. London: Granta. ISBN 9781847081469. Introduction by Ian Jack.[27]
  • Chaudhuri, Nirad (2001). The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian. New York: New York Review of Books Classics. ISBN 9780940322820. Introduction by Ian Jack.[28]
  • Jack, Ian, ed. (2015). Granta 130 India: Another Way of Seeing. London: Granta. ISBN 9781905881857.[29]
  • Jack, Ian, ed. (2005). The Granta Book of India. London: Granta/Grove Press. ISBN 9781862077843.[30]
  • Jack, Ian, ed. (1998). The Granta Book of Reportage. London: Granta. ISBN 9781862071933.[31]
  • Jack, Ian, ed. (1998). The Granta Book of Travel. London: Granta. ISBN 978-1862071100.[32]
  • Malcolm, Janet (2004). The Journalist and the Murderer. London: Granta. ISBN 9781862076372. Introduction by Ian Jack.[33]
  • Jack, Ian (1987). Before the Oil Ran Out: Britain, 1976–86. Secker & Warburg.[34]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "JACK, Ian Grant". Who's Who. Vol. 2022 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Jack, Ian (11 January 2011). The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. Random House. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4464-4809-0. ...my mother moved to Hill of Beath aged 2 or 3 ...
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Sherwood, Harriet (29 October 2022). "Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  4. ^ "They say the Queen was crowned in a different country. But some things in Britain never change | Ian Jack". the Guardian. 10 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Ian Jack". Booker Prize. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  6. ^ Jack, Ian (30 March 2019). "Amid the overalls and the flat caps, I found my voice in Cambuslang". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  7. ^ "The SRB Interview: Ian Jack". Scottish Review of Books. 14 October 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  8. ^ Jack, Ian (7 May 1986). "Ian Jack". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  9. ^ Oliver Luft (28 November 2008). "Timeline: a history of the Independent newspapers – from City Road to Kensington via 'Reservoir Dogs' | Media". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  10. ^ "Ian Jack – Literature". Literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  11. ^ "Ian Jack". Granta. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  12. ^ "Ian Jack". The Guardian. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  13. ^ "King's College London Ian Jack". King's College London. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  14. ^ "Home". Randomhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  15. ^ Foden, Giles (2 October 2009). "The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack | Book review". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  16. ^ Cooke, Rachel (6 September 2009). . The Observer. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  17. ^ Chancellor, Alexander (9 September 2010). . Spectator Book Club. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
  18. ^ "Goodbye to all that". The Economist. 10 September 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  19. ^ RSL Fellows (16 March 2016). "Royal Society of Literature » Current RSL Fellows". Rsliterature.org. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  20. ^ "NPG x134847; Ian Jack - portrait". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  21. ^ Finch, Emily (12 October 2018). "Blackstock Road plaque honours origins of worldwide peace symbol". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  22. ^ Jack, Ian (10 September 2005). "The big Mac story". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  23. ^ Chancellor, Alexander (27 August 2011). "Diary – Alexander Chancellor". The Spectator. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  24. ^ Jack, Ian (11 January 2011). "Cousin Walter". The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. Random House. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4464-4809-0. My great grandfather Birmingham was an Irishman (nobody knew from where, or of what religion) who joined the Royal Artillery and went to India, where most of his children were born, including my father's mother
  25. ^ Jack, Ian (16 October 2016). "16/10/2016, Good Morning Scotland – BBC Radio Scotland". Good Morning Scotland (Interview). Interviewed by Gordon Brewer. BBC Radio Scotland. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  26. ^ Jack, Ian (11 November 2011). "We know the terrible legacy of our love of fossil fuels. But will it stop us? No chance". The Guardian.
  27. ^ Athill, Diana (7 October 2010). "Life Class | What's New". Granta Books. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  28. ^ "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri – New York Review Books". Nyrb.com. 30 September 2001. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  29. ^ "Granta 130: India - Granta Magazine". Granta. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  30. ^ Ian Jack, ed. (2004). The Granta Book of India (9781862077843): Ian Jack: Books. Granta. ISBN 1862077843.
  31. ^ Jack, Ian (1998). The Granta Book of Reportage: Ian Jack: 9781862071933: Amazon.com: Books. Granta Books. ISBN 1862071934.
  32. ^ Ian Jack (Introduction) (1998). The Granta Book of Travel (Import): Ian Jack: 9781862071100: Amazon.com: Books. Granta Books. ISBN 1862071101.
  33. ^ Janet Malcolm. "The Journalist and the Murderer | What's New". Granta Books. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  34. ^ Jack, Ian (1987). Before the Oil Ran Out: Britain, 1976–86. Secker & Warburg.

External links edit

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Preceded by Editor of The Independent on Sunday
1991–1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of Granta
1995–2007 		Succeeded by

January 01, 1970
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For the British academic see Ian Jack literary scholar For the Australian historian see R Ian Jack Ian Grant Jack FRSL 7 February 1945 28 October 2022 was a British reporter writer and editor He edited the Independent on Sunday the literary magazine Granta and wrote regularly for The Guardian Ian JackFRSLJack and Brigid Keenan at PalFest 2008Born 1945 02 07 7 February 1945Farnworth Lancashire EnglandDied28 October 2022 2022 10 28 aged 77 Paisley Renfrewshire ScotlandOccupationsJournalisteditorauthorYears active1965 2022SpousesAparna Bagchi m 1979 div 1992 wbr Rosalind Sharpe m 1998 wbr Children2 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life and death 4 Bibliography as author 5 Bibliography as editor contributor 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editJack was born in Farnworth Lancashire on 7 February 1945 1 to parents who had migrated from Fife in 1930 Jack s mother Isabella nee Gillespie was born in Kirkcaldy and brought up in Hill of Beath 2 and his father Henry was born in Dunfermline The family returned to Scotland when he was seven in 1952 3 4 He grew up in North Queensferry and was educated there and at Dunfermline High School 1 Career editAfter a false start as a would be librarian 5 Jack joined The Glasgow Herald as a trainee journalist in 1965 3 After a short spell in its head office he was sent to work on two weekly papers in Lanarkshire the now defunct Cambuslang Advertiser and the East Kilbride News 6 Later he worked for the Scottish Daily Express at its Glasgow offices 7 In 1970 he joined The Sunday Times in London where he became a section editor and then a foreign correspondent cum feature writer with a special interest in South Asia and particularly India which he began to visit in the mid 1970s From 1986 to 1989 he wrote for The Observer and Vanity Fair 8 and then joined the team that created The Independent on Sunday which he edited from 1991 to 1995 9 10 His editorship of the quarterly Granta magazine to which he had previously contributed as a writer spanned 47 issues over twelve years to 2007 11 While at Granta Jack also commissioned and edited books by Diana Athill Simon Gray Janet Malcolm and Travis Elborough among others He contributed regularly to The Guardian from 2001 and began to write a weekly column for the paper six years later 3 12 He occasionally taught at the India Institute King s College London 13 In 2009 Jack published a collection of essays and previously unpublished writings entitled The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain 14 15 One reviewer wrote of Jack s handling of time in this book He is up there with a fiction writer such as Alice Munro in his grasp of its ebb and flow his awareness that its strong but rapidly changing currents often leave us wondering not only what we can remember but what we should 16 Alexander Chancellor called the book superb and added Collections of columns and newspaper articles are not usually a very good idea They quickly become stale and dated and one sometimes wonders what the point of them is except to deceive journalists into thinking that their ephemeral scribblings deserve some permanence Jack is an exception to the rule 17 The Economist wrote At the heart of the book are three magnificent essays about the Hatfield train crash of 2000 the sinking of the Titanic and the film Titanic 1997 and the lost cinemas of Farnworth Mr Jack s home town which is also a circuitous epitaph for a lost brother His contributions to this unequal struggle to preserve and remember cumulatively transcend journalism and attain the status of literature 18 Jack s awards included Journalist of the Year Granada TV s What the Papers Say award 1985 Reporter of the Year British Press Awards 1988 and Editor of the Year Newspaper Industry Awards 1993 He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 19 In 2011 London s National Portrait Gallery purchased a portrait of Jack by photographer Denis Waugh for its permanent collection 20 Personal life and death editJack married Aparna Bagchi in 1979 the couple divorced in 1992 3 He lived in Highbury London 21 with his second wife Lindy Sharpe 3 They had two children 3 and spent a part of every year on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde 22 23 Jack s paternal grandmother was born in India 24 and lived with his grandfather in the now demolished mining village of Lassodie between Dunfermline and Kelty 25 26 Jack died in Paisley Renfrewshire on 28 October 2022 after a short illness aged 77 3 Bibliography as author editJack Ian 1987 Before the Oil Ran Out Britain 1977 86 London Secker amp Warburg ISBN 0 436 22020 2 2001 The Crash that Stopped Britain London Granta ISBN 1 86207 468 2 originally from Granta 73 2009 The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain London Jonathan Cape ISBN 978 0 224 08735 3 2013 Mofussil Junction New Delhi Penguin ISBN 978 0 670 08644 3 Bibliography as editor contributor editAthill Diana 2009 Life Class The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill London Granta ISBN 9781847081469 Introduction by Ian Jack 27 Chaudhuri Nirad 2001 The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian New York New York Review of Books Classics ISBN 9780940322820 Introduction by Ian Jack 28 Jack Ian ed 2015 Granta 130 India Another Way of Seeing London Granta ISBN 9781905881857 29 Jack Ian ed 2005 The Granta Book of India London Granta Grove Press ISBN 9781862077843 30 Jack Ian ed 1998 The Granta Book of Reportage London Granta ISBN 9781862071933 31 Jack Ian ed 1998 The Granta Book of Travel London Granta ISBN 978 1862071100 32 Malcolm Janet 2004 The Journalist and the Murderer London Granta ISBN 9781862076372 Introduction by Ian Jack 33 Jack Ian 1987 Before the Oil Ran Out Britain 1976 86 Secker amp Warburg 34 References edit a b JACK Ian Grant Who s Who Vol 2022 online ed A amp C Black Subscription or UK public library membership required Jack Ian 11 January 2011 The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain Random House p 5 ISBN 978 1 4464 4809 0 my mother moved to Hill of Beath aged 2 or 3 a b c d e f g Sherwood Harriet 29 October 2022 Ian Jack Guardian columnist and former Granta editor dies aged 77 The Guardian London Retrieved 29 October 2022 They say the Queen was crowned in a different country But some things in Britain never change Ian Jack the Guardian 10 September 2022 Retrieved 11 September 2022 Ian Jack Booker Prize Retrieved 29 October 2022 Jack Ian 30 March 2019 Amid the overalls and the flat caps I found my voice in Cambuslang The Guardian London Retrieved 29 October 2022 The SRB Interview Ian Jack Scottish Review of Books 14 October 2009 Retrieved 29 October 2022 Jack Ian 7 May 1986 Ian Jack Vanity Fair Retrieved 20 March 2016 Oliver Luft 28 November 2008 Timeline a history of the Independent newspapers from City Road to Kensington via Reservoir Dogs Media The Guardian Retrieved 20 March 2016 Ian Jack Literature Literature britishcouncil org Retrieved 20 March 2016 Ian Jack Granta Retrieved 20 March 2016 Ian Jack The Guardian 21 May 2014 Retrieved 20 March 2016 King s College London Ian Jack King s College London Retrieved 20 March 2016 Home Randomhouse co uk Retrieved 20 March 2016 Foden Giles 2 October 2009 The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack Book review The Guardian Retrieved 29 October 2022 Cooke Rachel 6 September 2009 The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack The Observer Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 Retrieved 1 November 2010 Chancellor Alexander 9 September 2010 A lost civilisation Spectator Book Club Archived from the original on 26 October 2009 Retrieved 17 October 2010 Goodbye to all that The Economist 10 September 2009 Retrieved 20 March 2016 RSL Fellows 16 March 2016 Royal Society of Literature Current RSL Fellows Rsliterature org Retrieved 20 March 2016 NPG x134847 Ian Jack portrait National Portrait Gallery London Retrieved 31 October 2022 Finch Emily 12 October 2018 Blackstock Road plaque honours origins of worldwide peace symbol The Guardian London Retrieved 29 October 2022 Jack Ian 10 September 2005 The big Mac story The Guardian London Retrieved 29 October 2022 Chancellor Alexander 27 August 2011 Diary Alexander Chancellor The Spectator Retrieved 29 October 2022 Jack Ian 11 January 2011 Cousin Walter The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain Random House p 253 ISBN 978 1 4464 4809 0 My great grandfather Birmingham was an Irishman nobody knew from where or of what religion who joined the Royal Artillery and went to India where most of his children were born including my father s mother Jack Ian 16 October 2016 16 10 2016 Good Morning Scotland BBC Radio Scotland Good Morning Scotland Interview Interviewed by Gordon Brewer BBC Radio Scotland Retrieved 16 October 2016 Jack Ian 11 November 2011 We know the terrible legacy of our love of fossil fuels But will it stop us No chance The Guardian Athill Diana 7 October 2010 Life Class What s New Granta Books Retrieved 20 March 2016 The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Nirad C Chaudhuri New York Review Books Nyrb com 30 September 2001 Retrieved 20 March 2016 Granta 130 India Granta Magazine Granta Retrieved 20 March 2016 Ian Jack ed 2004 The Granta Book of India 9781862077843 Ian Jack Books Granta ISBN 1862077843 Jack Ian 1998 The Granta Book of Reportage Ian Jack 9781862071933 Amazon com Books Granta Books ISBN 1862071934 Ian Jack Introduction 1998 The Granta Book of Travel Import Ian Jack 9781862071100 Amazon com Books Granta Books ISBN 1862071101 Janet Malcolm The Journalist and the Murderer What s New Granta Books Retrieved 20 March 2016 Jack Ian 1987 Before the Oil Ran Out Britain 1976 86 Secker amp Warburg External links editPortraits of Ian Jack at the National Portrait Gallery London Media offices Preceded byStephen Glover Editor of The Independent on Sunday1991 1995 Succeeded byPeter Wilby Preceded byBill Buford Editor of Granta1995 2007 Succeeded byJason Cowley Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ian Jack amp oldid 1171731425, 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