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Claire Armitstead

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Claire Armitstead was born in south London and spent her early years in northern Nigeria. She worked as a trainee reporter in South Wales, covering the Welsh valleys during the miners’ strike, before joining the Hampstead & Highgate Express as a theatre critic and sub-editor. She then moved to the Financial Times, and subsequently to the Guardian, where she has worked as arts editor, literary editor, head of books and most recently, Associate Editor (Culture). She presents the weekly Guardian Books podcast and is a regular speaker at festivals around the world. She has been a trustee of English PEN since 2013.

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  • Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley
  • Crystal Mahey-Morgan
  • Johny Pitts
  • Karen Liebenguth
  • Alissa Timoshkina
  • Pete Brown
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Lauren Laverne
  • Debora Robertson
  • Michele Kirsch
  • Paul Burston
  • Jody Porter
  • Nicola Kent
  • Nadia Shireen
  • Coco Khan
  • Valerie Brandes
  • Andy Miller
  • John Osborne
  • Felicity Cloake
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Neil Denny
  • Tim Wells
  • Nick Thorpe
  • Fernando Sdrigotti
  • Magdalene Forés
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Ben Moor
  • Melanie McGrath
  • Thurston Moore
  • Olia Hercules
  • Emanuelle Dirix
  • Joe Haddow
  • Amir Dotan
  • Sav Akyuz
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  • Xanthi Barker
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  • Diana Henry
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  • Alan Johnson
  • Georgina Pringle
  • Mariam Khan
  • Briony Bax
  • Suzanne Noble
  • Alex Clark
  • Geoff Nicholson
  • Rachel McCormack
  • Martin Rowson
  • Niall McDevitt
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Rosie Price
  • Henny Beaumont
  • Jude Rogers
  • Zia Ahmed
  • Francesca Segal
  • Caroline Rosie Dent
  • Wendy Jones
  • Alex Jackson
  • Lee Jackson
  • Anna Birch
  • Joel Golby
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  • Robert Montgomery
  • Julia Bueno
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  • Jenny Linford
  • Dorian Lynsky
  • Greta Bellamacina
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  • Francesca Cassini
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  • Robyn Travis
  • Yasmin Khan
  • Jeremy Reed
  • Sheila Dillon
  • Daniel Trilling
  • Suzi Feay
  • Michael Bravo
  • Richard Boon
  • Michael Goldfarb
  • Julius Beltrame
  • Gareth E. Rees
  • Claire Armitstead
  • Nigella Lawson
  • Will Wiles
  • Kit Caless
  • Isobel Galleymore
  • Travis Elborourgh
  • Jan Noble
  • Sue Quinn
  • Jamie Lee
  • Serena Constance
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Nadia Valman
  • Elizabeth Macneal
  • Kerry Hudson
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  • Louie Stowell
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  • Lara Maiklem
  • Sean Longden
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  • Caroline Bobby
  • Kirsten Norrie
  • Tom Huddleston
  • Saima Mir
  • Alice Lascelles
  • Dan O’Brien
  • Lynn Enright
  • Roger Robinson
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