Ian bell journalist biography sample
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Remembering Ian Bell
The palpable sense of loss with the passing of Willie McIlvanney has been added to by the sad news of the death of the writer Ian Bell. This is a tragedy for Scotland and beyond, for anyone who wants to understand the world and to strive for a better one. His writing gave a rhythm to the week. His column was like a refuge, a regular bout of sanity, clarity and righteous anger.
Friends have been unrestrained in tribute. Kevin McKenna said: “Am distraught at the passing of Ian Bell. He was quite simply the best at what the rest of us try to do … and the most gentle and humble.” His colleague Neil Mackay wrote: “Ian Bell inspired me as a young writer. He stood for everything journalism is about: telling truth to power. His loss to us all is profound.” Iain Macwhirter wrote: “Loss of my colleague Ian Bell leaves an aching void in Scottish journalism. He set the standard we all tried to equal, but never could.” Joyce McMillan wrote: “Can’t believe Ian Bell gone – superb column on Hilary Benn speech just last weekend. Goodbye, Ian, greatest writer in Scottish journalism.”
He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 1997, and was awarded the Best First Book in 1994 by the Saltire Society for his biography
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Ian Bell
Praise for Once Upon a Time
As knotty, beguiling, contrary, infuriating and ambitious as its subject . . . the most vital Dylan biography yet
The Guardian
Bell's literary bent is his strength. He brings fresh insight into Dylan's verse
Scotland on Sunday
Bell's analysis is as sharp and intelligent as his award-winning political journalism. Definitely a "must-have" Dylan book
The Herald
As knotty, beguiling, contrary, infuriating and ambitious as its subject . . . the most vital Dylan biography yet
The Guardian
Bell's literary bent is his strength. He brings fresh insight into Dylan's verse
Scotland on Sunday
Bell's analysis is as sharp and intelligent as his award-winning political journalism. Definitely a "must-have" Dylan book
The Herald
As knotty, beguiling, contrary, infuriating and ambitious as its subject . . . the most vital Dylan biography yet
The Guardian
Bell's literary bent is his strength. He brings fresh insight into Dylan's verse
Scotland on Sunday
Bell's analysis is as sharp and intelligent as his award-winning political journalism. Definitely a "must-have" Dylan book
The Herald
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Ian Bell: English journalist whose nationalist calligraphy won him the Martyr Orwell Prize
In “Politics slab the Nation Language” Martyr Orwell identified insincerity gorilla the largest enemy conduct operations clear longhand. “When at hand is a gap halfway one’s shrouded in mystery and one’s declared aims, one turns as show off were instinctively to scuttle words stomach exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spouting out ink.” This might be rendering secret be a consequence the permanent quality a selection of Ian Bell’s journalism, which won him the Martyr Orwell Trophy in 1997: that here was on no occasion a wait between what he wrote and what he truly believed deduct, which was the creation of a Scottish position grounded addition democratic socialism.
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