Dan Kieran

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Dan Kieran (born June 10, 1975 ) is a British author.

Life

Kieran's journalistic activity began as a staff member of the London magazine The Idler ( English for the idler ), of which he was editor. His journalistic contributions also appear in the feature sections of the major British daily newspapers.

With Sam Jordison, Kieran started a reader survey in 2003 for the award of a title Crap Town (colloquially shitty town ) among the cities in the United Kingdom . The results and those of the following year were recorded in two books: Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK and Crap Towns II: The Nation Decides . The cities named in the published list, including the first-placed cities Kingston upon Hull and Luton , resisted the degradation, which increased the publicity of the action. The provocative title was varied by Kieran in other contexts and was also copied in Great Britain. In his more recent writings Kieran has for the reading public of the Idler discovered the slowness.

Works (selection)

  • with Sam Jordison : The Idler book of crap towns: the 50 worst places to live in the UK . Boxtree, London 2003
  • The Idler Book of Crap Towns II . Boxtree, London 2004
  • The Idler Book of Crap Holidays . Bantam, London 2005 ISBN 0-553-81737-X
  • Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell . Harper, 2005 ISBN 0-06-083341-6
  • with Ian Vince : The Myway Code . Boxtree, London 2006 ISBN 0-7522-2620-7
  • How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe and all that surrounds it . Snow Books, London 2006
  • with Ian Vince: Three Men In A Float . John Murray, London 2008 ISBN 0-7195-9501-0
  • with Tom Hodgkinson : The Book Of Idle Pleasures . Illustrations by Ged Wells. Ebury Press, 2008 (German translation The Book of Hundred Pleasures , Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95403-020-0 )
  • I Fought the Law . Bantam, London 2007 ISBN 0-553-81769-8
  • with Ian Vince: Across England at 15 mph . John Murray, London 2009
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles . John Murray, London 2009 ISBN 1-84854-014-0
  • The idle traveler: the art of slow travel . AA, Basingstoke 2012
  • Slow travel. The art of traveling . Translated from the English by Yasmin von Rauch. Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2013, Heyne 2014 as paperback

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Idler , website
  2. ↑ Sarfraz Manzoor: Don't knock crap towns. We need them , The Guardian , Sept. 29, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Kieran, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1975