| 词条 | Damian Barr |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Damian Barr | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Damian Leighton Barr | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1976|7|20}} | birth_place = Newarthill, Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Brighton, Sussex, England | nationality = British | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Lancaster University | occupation = Journalist, writer | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | home_town = | salary = | net_worth = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | footnotes = | box_width = }} Damian Leighton Barr FRSA (born 20 July 1976) is a British writer, columnist, and playwright.[1] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and host of the Literary Salon at Shoreditch House, which also encompasses the Reading Weekend. In 2014, he presented several editions of the BBC Radio 4 cultural programme Front Row. His most famous piece of work is his 2013 memoir Maggie & Me, centered around British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1984 assassination attempt by the IRA. Early lifeBarr was born in 1976 in Newarthill, Scotland. He attended Lancaster University. CareerBarr's first book was published in 2006 by Hodder & Stoughton. Get It Together: How To Survive Your Quarterlife Crisis was the first book concerned with the quarter-life crisis to be published in the UK. It was inspired by a column Barr wrote for The Times in 2001–03 about graduate work and life.[2] Barr's second book is Maggie & Me, a memoir of growing up in small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years. Bloomsbury acquired the book at auction in July 2010 and it was published in the UK in April 2013.[3] Barr received a 2018 University of Otago Scottish Writers Fellowship, which is based at the Pah Homestead in Auckland, New Zealand. He is currently completing a novel set in South Africa.[4] You Will be Safe Here will be released internationally on the 4th of April 2019. Personal lifeBarr is openly gay.[5][6] He lives in Brighton, Sussex,[7] with his husband, ceramics artist Mike Moran, and a small flock of chickens.[8] References1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/31/damian-barr-maggie-and-me-going-home|title=Damian Barr: on going home, when you never felt welcome there|last=Barr|first=Damian|date=2014-05-31|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-02-05|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Barr, Damian}}2. ^[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Together-Surviving-Quarterlife-Crisis/dp/0340829036/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2 Get it Together: A Guide to Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis]. Amazon.co.uk: Damian Barr: Books 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/solzhenitsyn-stories-head-rights-deals.html |title=Solzhenitsyn stories head rights deals |publisher=The Bookseller |date=20 July 2010 |accessdate=4 June 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/barr-drawn-scottish-feel-city |title=Barr drawn to Scottish feel of city |publisher=The Otago Daily Times |date=22 March 2018 |accessdate=31 March 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/wyzkr/maggie-and-me--series-1---episode-5|title=Maggie & Me.|work=Radio Times}} 6. ^Lesley McDowell, "Damian Barr is in two minds about memories of Margaret Thatcher", Herald Scotland, 10 August 2013. 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/magazine/interview/8957673.A_brand_new_chapter/|title=A brand new chapter|last=Meakin|first=Nione|date=6 April 2011|publisher=The Argus|accessdate=31 August 2013}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=https://huecryagency.com/ideas/damian-barr-literary-salon/ |title=Interview with an influencer: Damian Barr |date=March 2016 |website=Hue & Cry |access-date=31 March 2019}} 6 : 1976 births|British male journalists|Living people|The Times journalists|Gay writers|20th-century Scottish writers |
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