Alex Nunns is a British author, editor and political activist.
Life and career
editNunns is political correspondent for Red Pepper;[1] contributing articles on British politics and international developments. He has written for other outlets including Le Monde Diplomatique[2] and Novara Media.[3]
With Nadia Idle, Nunns co-edited Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it (ISBN 978-1-935928-45-4).[4] Published in April 2011, shortly after the initial uprising of the Egyptian Revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Tweets from Tahrir was the first book to use content from Twitter as the basis for a historical narrative.[5][6] The book received wide praise, including from Robert Fisk of The Independent and Scott Malcomson of The New York Times.[7][8] It was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in May 2012.[9] In February 2012, the book inspired a TV documentary by Al Jazeera English.[10]
Nunns' book on Jeremy Corbyn’s rise to the leadership of the Labour Party, The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, was first published in 2016. It won the 2017 Bread and Roses Award.[11] Robert Potts in The Times Literary Supplement praised the book as a "very well-researched narrative" that was "widely sourced", commenting that “The story of how such an other-worldly figure became leader of the party simply by being himself is an oddly electrifying one”.[12] Stephen Bush of the New Statesman wrote that "Corbyn is at last given a wholly sympathetic hearing", the work being "the most authoritative yet published on his rise", but criticised it for a "lack of fluency around the animating issues of the Labour right".[13] Gaby Hinsliff, in The Guardian, included The Candidate in an article about the best books on politics of 2016.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Alex Nunns". Red Pepper. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Jeremy Corbyn, l'homme à abattre". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). 1 October 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ "How the Guardian Changed Tack on Corbyn, Despite Its Readers | Novara Media". Novara Media. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ Nunns, Alex; Idle, Nadia; Soueif, Ahdaf (2011). Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it. New York: OR Books. ISBN 9781935928461.
- ^ Harris, Androulla. "New Statesman". Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Bosman, Julie (6 March 2011). "New York Times". Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Fisk, Robert (23 April 2011). "But what if the spirit of rebellion spread to Iran?". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Malcomson, Scott (10 May 2011). "The Book of Tweets". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ "The 2012 Shortlist". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Al Jazeera: Tweets from Tahrir". Al Jazeera. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Jeremy Corbyn exploration wins Bread and Roses Award | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ Potts, Robert (15 March 2017). "What is the Labour Party for?". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ Bush, Stephen (16 November 2016). "Alex Nunns' new book is insightful – but can't settle the myth of Corbyn". New Statesman. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ Hinsliff, Gaby (1 December 2016). "The best politics books of 2016". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
External links
edit- Alex Nunns on Twitter
- Red Pepper contributor page
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