Anne Karpf



Profile:


Full name: Anne Karpf

Area of interest: Society, health, culture and religious belief

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:anne.karpf@guardian.co.uk anne.karpf@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Ann Karpf

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Agent: AP Watt

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Biography:
Education: Oxford University; and a postgraduate degree in the Sociology of Health and Illness

Career: worked for BBC Television; Cosmopolitan: contributing editor; The Times: book reviewer; The Guardian: radio critic and columnist

Current position/role: columnist, journalist and broadcaster
 * also writes for The Jewish Chronicle

Other roles:

Other activities: teaches writing at London Metropolitan University

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight: The Independent: Anne Karpf: The human voice 9th September 2007

TV/Radio: regular broadcasts on BBC radio and television

Controversy/Criticism:

Awards/Honours: Awarded the Commission for Racial Equality’s Race in the Media Award for national newspapers, 2003; also shortlisted for Amnesty International Media Award, 1993 and a Norwich Union Medical Journalism Award

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Books & Debate:

 * Doctoring the media: the reporting of health and medicine OCLC 17776731, 1988
 * The war after: living with the Holocaust OCLC 60283745, 1996

Latest work: The human voice: how this extraordinary instrument reveals essential clues about who we are OCLC 266235917, 2006

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The Guardian:
Column remit: Family matters

Section: columnist in the Saturday Guardian's Family section until 29th March 2008, has since written in the comment & debate section and comment is free (as of 24th Aug. 2008)

Role: Columnist

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:anne.karpf@guardian.co.uk anne.karpf@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Ann Karpf

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Varies - formerly a regular Saturday column

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Articles:

 * is at the limits of irony'' - Racism against Jews is on the rise, but some of it masquerades as comedy, and that makes it complex to address - 7th February 2010 (writing in The Independent)
 * People who are losing their past still deserve a future - Care homes, arts projects and other innovations in dementia treatment could save people from a life of bland reassurance - 3rd December 2008
 * Our first step towards understanding the death of this child should be not to blame social workers - but to face the mother's experience of childhood. Rather than dwelling on the horror, we should try to learn from the killing of Baby P - 15th November 2008
 * Islamofascist slanders - Equating Muslims with Nazis is a hazard in the Middle East, and misfires as a smear on Obama - 4th November 2008
 * Economic with actuality - 'Credit crunch' is just a euphemism for financial crisis. And please, don't mention the R-word - 30th July 2008


 * The final column - Abandoning mothers? Ask the children packed off to boarding school - 29th March 2008
 * The average couple with children spend just 15 minutes a day alone together. They should try dating - 15th March 2008
 * There's no such thing as a perfect mother – and that's half the fun - Raising a family is less stressful when we don't try too hard, says a mother-of-two. The Campaign for Real Mothers starts here... - The Independent on Sunday, 2nd March 2008
 * The state wants my daughter to be vaccinated, but I want to know more - the HPV vaccine debate - 1st March 2008
 *  An unexpected gift and a family party makes me wonder what cousins mean - 16th February 2008
 * How do you tell off other people's children? - Wednesday, 6th February 2008
 * Too many options - 'Shopping around' is just a euphemism for 'another demand on your time' - 19th January 2008
 * These are just things, not pieces of her - As long as my mother's flat remained unsold, without her but still filled with her things, I could, in some small part of me, sustain the fantasy that she might return - 5th January 2008

