Jack Fairweather
British journalist and author
Jack Fairweather is a British journalist and author, known for The Volunteer, a biography that won the 2019 Costa Book Award.
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Born 1978 in Wales, United Kingdom
About Jack Fairweather
Jack Fairweather is a British journalist and author, born in 1978. He has been the Daily Telegraph's Baghdad bureau chief and has also reported for the Washington Post, including on video in Afghanistan. His war coverage earned him a British Press Award. The Volunteer is the account of a Polish underground officer who offered to report on the Nazi crimes committed at Auschwitz. It is a bestselling book and won the 2019 Costa Book Award for biography. It has appeared in 25 languages, and a major exhibition in Berlin draws on it.