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    Ian Thomson, “an author of great range and sensibility” (Guardian), was born in London in 1961, and went to Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is an award-winning biographer, reporter, translator and literary critic.

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  3. Ian Thomson was born in Blackburn, Lancashire on Halloween, 1949, in a different world, where coal was delivered by horse and cart, as was sarsaparilla and ginger beer on a Saturday afternoon.

  4. Ian Thomson was born in London in 1961. His parents moved to New York City that same year, where his father worked for a Wall Street bank. (His mother, a Baltic émigrée, came to England in 1947 at the age of 17.)

  5. Ian Thomson is an award-winning biographer, travel writer, translator and literary critic known for his interest in Italy, the West Indies and the Baltic. His first book, Southern Italy (Collins, 1989), was followed by a translation of the Sicilian crime writer Leonardo Sciascia, Death of an Inquisitor and Other Stories (Harvill, 1990).

  6. Ian Thomson was born in London in 1961, but grew up in New York, where his father worked for a bank. His mother, a Baltic émigrée, came to England in 1947. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and in the 1980s he worked in Rome as a teacher, translator, journalist and writer.

  7. Nov 30, 2023 · Ian Thomson was born in Blackburn, Lancashire on Halloween, 1949, in a different world, where coal was delivered by horse and cart. Like any boy of his age, he wore sleeveless tank tops, which were short, and shorts which were long.

  8. Elected: 2003. Year of birth: 1961. Image credit: Caroline Forbes. More of our Fellows. Fellowship Election Process . Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour.

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