Christopher Hitchens |
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| Born | Christopher Eric Hitchens
13 Apryle 1949(1949-04-13)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, Ingland |
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| Dee'd | 15 December 2011(2011-12-15) (aged 62)
Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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Cause o daith | Pneumonia (brocht on bi esophageal cancer) |
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| Naitionality | - Breetish (1949–2011)
- American (2007–2011)
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| Eddication | The Leys School |
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| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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| Hauf-marrae(s) | - Eleni Meleagrou (m. 1981; div. 1989)
- Carol Blue (m. 1991; d. 2011)[1]
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| Awairds | - Lannan Leeterar Awaird for Nonfiction (1991)
- Naitional Magazine Awaird for Columns (2007, 2011)
- Richard Dawkins Awaird (2011)
- LennonOno Grant For Peace (2012)
- The Orwell Prize – Special Prize (2012)
- PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Awaird for the Airt o the Essay (2012)
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Influences
George Orwell, [2] Leszek Kolakowski, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Eliot, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Heller, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Edward Said, Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Llewellyn, Aldous Huxley, PG Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Richard Hofstadter, Paul Mark Scott, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, James Fenton, Jessica Mitford, Ian McEwan, Colm Tóibín, Bertrand Russell, Wilfred Owen, Israel Shahak, [3] Isaiah Berlin, W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag[4]
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