Simon Garfield

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Simon Frank Garfield (born March 19, 1960 in London ) is a British journalist and author.

Life

Garfield attended the independent University College School in Hampstead , London , and the London School of Economics . There he was editor of The Beaver . Today he works as a freelance journalist a. a. for the BBC.

Journalistic work

Garfield deals with cartography, maps and their political implications. In "Maps!" Simon Garfield tells the story of cartography from the ancient Greeks to Google Maps. In 2014 this book was named Knowledge Book of the Year in the “Overview” category.

The Guardian wrote of Garfield in 2013: "Simon Garfield has made it his business over the past few years to remind us of the risks that our constant push for a virtual world entails."

Publications (selection)

  • The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS . Faber and Faber, London / Boston 1994, ISBN 0-571153534 .
  • 2012: Just My Type: A Book about Fonts . Profile Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84668-302-2 .
  • 2013: On the map: Why the World Looks the Way it does . Profile Books, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84668-509-5 .
    • 2013: German: Cards! A book about explorers, brilliant cartographers and mountains that never existed. Theiss, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2847-2 .
  • 2014: To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing . GOTHAM BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-59240-882-5 .
    • Letters! A book about love in words, wondrous mail and the man who mailed himself , Dt. by Jörg Fündling, Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3175-5
  • 2016: Timekeepers: How The World Became Obsessed With Time
    • Time fever. Why the hour doesn't strike the same everywhere, the internal clock can fool and Beethoven gets out of step , Dt. by Jörg Fündling, Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3443-5

Web links

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  1. ↑ "Over the last few years Simon Garfield has made it his job to remind us of what we risk losing in the rush towards a virtual world." Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, Friday 15 November 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/15/letter-simon-garfield-review
  2. ↑ Typography is two-dimensional architecture in FAZ of December 13, 2013, page 26
personal data
SURNAME Garfield, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garfield, Simon Frank (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England