Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn
Born	Patrick Oliver Cockburn (1950-03-05) 5 March 1950 (age 74) Ireland
Nationality	Irish British
Alma mater	Trinity College, Oxford Queen's University Belfast
Occupations	Writer Journalist Author
Years active	1979–present
Employers	Financial Times The Independent
Notable work	Henry's Demons The Rise of Islamic State Chaos and Caliphate The Age of Jihad
Spouse	Janet Elisabeth Montefiore ​ ​ (m. 1981)​
Children	2
Parents	Claud Cockburn (father) Patricia Arbuthnot (mother)
Relatives	Alexander Cockburn (brother) Andrew Cockburn (brother) Henry Cockburn (grandfather) John Bernard Arbuthnot (grandfather) Olivia Wilde (niece)
Awards	See list

Patrick Oliver Cockburn (/ˈkoʊbɜːrn/ KOH-burn; born 5 March 1950) is a journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times since 1979 and, from 1990, The Independent.^[1] He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books.

He has written three books on Iraq's recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009,^[2] Foreign Commentator of the Year (Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2013), Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year (British Journalism Awards 2014), Foreign Reporter of the Year (The Press Awards For 2014).