Nigel Farndale

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Nigel Farndale (born September 30, 1964) is a British journalist and author, known for his award-winning interviews in the Sunday Telegraph.

He grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, was educated at Barnard Castle School, read philosophy for a master's degree at Durham University and worked as a farmer before becoming a journalist — he wrote an abusive letter to Auberon Waugh, who then asked him to write for Literary Review.^[1] He was a contributor to various papers and magazines after that, among them the Sunday Times, Country Life and Spectator.

Since 1995, he has been a regular feature writer for the Sunday Telegraph. His interview subjects for that paper include Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, Woody Allen, the Dalai Lama, Prince Charles, Hillary Clinton, Paul McCartney, George Best and Stephen Hawking. He has won a British Press Award for his interviews, and three commendations for them.^[2] In 2005, he was the joint subject of a programme about interviewing on Radio 4 — he and Lynn Barber compared notes on Between Ourselves.

Farndale is the author of four books: a novel, a collection of interviews and two biographies. His Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce was published by Macmillan in 2005 and shortlisted for that year’s Whitbread Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

He is married with three sons and lives in Hampshire.

[edit] Publications

A Sympathetic Hanging. London, 2000. ISBN 0704381419
Last Action Hero of the British Empire: Commander John Kerans 1915-1985. London, 2001. ISBN 0571208258
Flirtation, Seduction, Betrayal: Interviews with Heroes and Villains. London, 2002. ISBN 1841196444
Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce. London, 2005. ISBN 0333989929