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Andrew Sanger |
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Freelance travel writer and editor |
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London
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as-wpu@focusguides.com |
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Website 1
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www.andrewsanger.com |
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Website 2
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www.travelwriters.co.uk/andrewsanger-2 |
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Biography |
A full-time freelance writer of guidebooks and travel features for some 25 years. I have lived in several countries (including France, Greece, India and the USA) and written many hundreds of articles for the travel pages of UK national newspapers, consumer and customer magazines, and in recent years websites. I have worked as travel editor of a number of British publications and from 1990-1999 was editor of the French Railways customer magazine. Some of my articles have won awards. I have written about 30 guidebooks, mainly on regions of France, but also two successful guides for vegetarians and guides to Ireland, Israel, Belgium and the Canary Islands, among them several published in the last three years. |
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Main professional activities |
In the last two years I have worked on various guidebooks as a writer, researcher or consultant editor for AA Publishing, Thomas Cook Publishing and Dorling Kindersley, as well as updating guidebooks and writing travel brochures, extensive website text for Eurotunnel and commissioned articles for Sunday Times special supplemenets; women's magazine Bella and the Jewish Chronicle, and several other publications.
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Memberships |
Travelwriters UK
British Guild of Travel Writers
London Press Club |
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Awards |
ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards 2002 - Finalist
Travelex Travel Writers' Award 1996 - Category winner
Travelex Travel Writers' Award 1994 - Category winner. |
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Most recent publications |
Thomas Cook Hotspots guide to Lanzarote (2006); AA Essential guides to Lanzarote, Tenerife and Channel Hopping (all 2005); Thomas Cook Drive Around guides to Burgundy, Provence and (as co-author) the Loire Valley (all 2005); Dorling Kindersley Top 10 Dublin (co-author, 2005).
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Other important publications |
Other successful titles included The Vegetarian Traveller, Exploring Rural France, Languedoc & Roussillon, and the still-popular Fodor's Exploring Israel.
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Areas of particular interest or expertise |
I am interested in the reality of modern life for the people of a country, and in the positive and negative impact of tourism on society. My specialist destinations are France and all the French regions, California and New England, Ireland (including Northern Ireland), Israel (especially Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Galilee), Crete, Corfu, Lanzarote and Tenerife. |
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Other relevant information |
I speak French and have a smattering of Hebrew. I write on other subjects beside travel, including interview features, and have recently written and published a novel about the hippy years, which can be found at www.lulu.com/andrewsanger
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