Timothy Garton Ash
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Timothy Garton Ash
He has written about the former
Education
Garton Ash was born to John Garton Ash (1919–2014) and Lorna Judith Freke. His father was educated at
For postgraduate study he went to
Although he denies being or having been a British intelligence operative, Garton Ash described himself as a "soldier behind enemy lines" and described the
Life and career
In the 1980s Garton Ash was Foreign Editor of , as well as other newspapers.
In 2005, Garton Ash was listed in Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people.[9] The article says that "shelves are where most works of history spend their lives. But the kind of history Garton Ash writes is more likely to lie on the desks of the world's decision makers."
Geopolitics
Garton Ash describes himself as a
Garton Ash first came to prominence during the Cold War as a supporter of
Personal life
Garton Ash and his Polish-born wife Danuta live primarily in Oxford, England, and also near Stanford University in California as part of his work with the Hoover Institution.[14] They have two sons, Tom Ash, a web developer based in Canada, and Alec Ash, an author and editor focused on China.[14] His elder brother, Christopher, is a Church of England clergyman.[15]
Bibliography
- Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein ... Die DDR heute (ISBN 3-499-33015-6
- The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (ISBN 0-684-18114-2
- The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (ISBN 0-394-57573-3
- The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (Random House, 1990) ISBN 0-394-58884-3
- In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0-394-55711-5
- The File: A Personal History (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0-679-45574-4
- History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (ISBN 0-7139-9323-5
- Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1-4000-6219-5
- Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name (Atlantic Books, 2009) ISBN 1-84887-089-2
- (edited, with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from ISBN 9780199552016
- Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (ISBN 978-0-300-16116-8
- (edited, with Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, and Rory McCarthy) Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2016) ISBN 9780198749028
- Obrona Liberalizmu (Fundacja Kultura Liberalna, 2022) ISBN 9788366619067
- Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (Yale University Press, 2023)ISBN 9780300257076
Awards and honours
- Somerset Maugham Award, for The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1984)
- Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon (1989)
- Premio Napoli, for journalism (1995) [17]
- Order of Merit from the Czech Republic
- Order of Merit from Germany[18]
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- Honorary doctorate from St Andrews University, Scotland
- Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing (2002)
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George(CMG)
- Orwell Prize for journalism (2006)
- Kullervo Killinen Prize from Finland (2006)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts(FRSA)
- Charlemagne Prize (2017)[20]
- Lionel Gelber Prize for Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (2024)[21]
- Honorary doctorate at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (2024)[22]
See also
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- Appel de Blois
- Project Forum
- List of essay contributions to the New York Review of Books
Notes
- ^ "John Garton Ash – obituary". The Telegraph. London. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ "St. Ed's – OSE". saintedmunds.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Garton Ash, Timothy (31 May 2007). "The Stasi on Our Minds". The New York Review of Books. 54 (9). Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ^ a b Glover, Michael (2 September 1998). "Memoirs of an inadvertent spy". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ "Fellows: Timothy Garton Ash". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ "Governing Body Fellows: Professor Timothy Garton Ash". St. Anthony's College. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ "Timothy Garton Ash". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ "timothy garton ash son dakika gelişmeleri ve haberleri Radikal'de!". Radikal (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Ferguson, Niall (18 April 2005). "Timothy Garton Ash". TIME.com. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Garton Ash, Timothy (13 October 2016). "Liberal internationalists have to own up: we left too many people behind". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ Garton Ash, Timothy (3 May 2007). "Independence for Scotland would not be good for England". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ a b Garton Ash, Timothy (12 April 2017). "We know the price of appeasement. That's why we must stand up to Viktor Orbán". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ Garton Ash, Timothy (7 January 2016). "The pillars of Poland's democracy are being destroyed". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Biography". timothygartonash.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ Mesa, Ivan (3 August 2020). "On My Shelf: Life and Books with Christopher Ash". The Gospel Coalition. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ Ascherson, Neal (21 December 2023). "Becoming European". The New York Review of Books. 70 (20): 28–32.
- ^ "Premio di Giornalismo". premionapoli.it.
- ^ "Timothy Garton Ash :: Biography". timothygartonash.com.
- ^ "Eredoctoraten voor Maria Nowak, Timothy Garton Ash en Claudio Magris". Dagkrant Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (in Dutch). 22 December 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ europeonline-magazine.eu, europe online publishing house gmbh -. "Historian Garton Ash receives Germany's Charlemagne Prize 2017 | EUROPE ONLINE". en.europeonline-magazine.eu. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ "2024 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Timothy Garton Ash for Homelands: A Personal History of Europe". newswire.ca. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
- ^ "British historian Timothy Garton Ash awarded honorary doctorate by Lithuanian university". lrt.lt. 21 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
External links
- Official Website
- Articles by Timothy Garton Ash Archived 9 May 2008 at the Journalisted
- Column archives at The Guardian
- Contributions to the New York Review of Books
- Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom
- Free Speech Debate
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Timothy Garton Ash on Charlie Rose
- Garton Ash on Facts Are Subversive
- In dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi
- Stanford public lecture