Simon Barnes
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Simon Barnes is an English journalist. He was chief sports writer of The Times until 2014, and wrote a wildlife opinion column in the Saturday edition of the same newspaper. He has written three novels.[1]
The son of Edward Barnes,[2] a co-creator of the BBC children's TV programme Blue Peter, Barnes was educated at Emanuel School, and studied English literature at the University of Bristol, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007.[3]
After beginning his journalism career on local newspapers in Britain, he travelled to Hong Kong, where he wrote for travel magazines and, briefly, the South China Morning Post.[4] After his return to Britain, he became a sports writer for The Times, being promoted in time to the position of Chief Sports Writer. He is the author of 16 books, including three novels. His latest book, Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong, was published in 2011. Barnes has appeared in a number of programmes on BBC Radio 2, including a reading of his book How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher.
Barnes lives in Norfolk.[5] He was on The Times team at the 2012 London Olympics, the seventh summer Games that he has covered for the newspaper. In March 2009 he was runner-up in the Sports Journalists' Association's 'Sports Columnist of the Year' award, an award he won in 2008.
In June 2014 Barnes was sacked by The Times after 32 years' employment, the newspaper having informed him it could no longer afford to pay his salary.[6] Speculation in some sections of the UK media was that the real reason may have been Barnes's outspoken views expressed in his wildlife opinion column. The column blamed illegal activity by red grouse shooting interests for the continued persecution and near extinction of the hen harrier in England.[7][8] Writing on his blog, which he began after leaving The Times in 2014, Barnes wrote: "Certainly I have annoyed some powerful people."[9]
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.with Nik Wheeler (1981). China in focus. Hong Kong: CFW Guidebooks. pp. 63p. : chiefly col ill. ISBN 962-7031-12-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Phil Edmonds: a singular man. London: Kingswood. 1986. pp. xi, 179p, [8]p of plates : ill., ports., 24cm. ISBN 0-434-98092-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eamonn McCabe, photographer. London: Kingswood. 1988. pp. xxii, 88 p. : ill., ports., 29 cm. ISBN 0-434-98147-8.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Horsesweat and tears a year in John Dunlop's racing stable. London: Heinemann Kingswood. 1988. pp. xii, 228p, 8p. of plates, 24cm. ISBN 0-434-98152-4.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.A la recherche du cricket perdu. London: Macmillan London. 1989. pp. v, 137p : ill, 21cm. ISBN 0-333-48722-2., winner of The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.A Sportswriter's Year. London: Heinemann London. 1989. pp. v, 224p : ill, 25cm. ISBN 0-434-98180-X.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flying in the face of nature a year in Minsmere Bird Reserve. London: Pelham. 1992. pp. xi, 227p, 25cm. ISBN 0-7207-2005-2.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.with Peter Jackson (1994). Tiger!. London: Boxtree in association with Tigress Productions and Meridian Broadcasting. pp. 160p, 29cm. ISBN 1-85283-931-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rogue Lion Safaris. London: HarperCollins, London. 1997. pp. 320 p. : col. ill.., 33cm. ISBN 0-00-649849-3.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hong Kong Belongers. London: HarperCollins, London. 1999. pp. 320 p., 33cm. ISBN 0-00-651195-3.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.with Alan Marks (2000). Planet Zoo: One Hundred Animals We Can't Afford to Lose. London: Orion Children's. pp. 264 p. : col. ill.., 28 cm. ISBN 1-85881-488-X.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miss Chance. London: HarperCollins, London. 2000. pp. 288 p., 27 cm. ISBN 0-00-651196-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.How to be a bad birdwatcher: To the greater glory of life. London: Short. 2004. pp. 198 p. : ill., 21 cm. ISBN 1-904095-95-X.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.A bad birdwatcher's companion --or a personal introduction to Britain's 50 most obvious birds. London: Short. 2005. pp. 281 p. : ill., 21 cm. ISBN 1-904977-37-5.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The meaning of sport. London: Short. 2007. pp. 365 p., 20 cm. ISBN 978-1-904977-85-8.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.with Joseph Barnes (2008). How to be wild. London: Short. pp. 1 v. : ill., 20 cm. ISBN 978-1-906021-48-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Horsey Life. London: Short. 2008. pp. 288 : ill., 25 cm. ISBN 978-1-906021-42-9.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong. London: Short. 2011. p. 288. ISBN 978-1-907595-47-9.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ten Million Aliens. London: Short. 2014. pp. 480 p. ISBN 978-1780721422.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible. London: Simon and Schuster UK. 2018. p. 208. ISBN 978-1471175404.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet. Simon & Schuster UK. 2019. ISBN 978-1-4711-6849-9.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari. London: Simon and Schuster UK. 2023. p. 336. ISBN 978-1398518902.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barnes, Simon (2025). Twelve Books to Furnish a Room. London: Anthony Powell Society. ISBN 978-0-9956267-9-9.
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- ^ AP The Anthony Powell Newsletter, Winter 2016, Anthony Powell Society, 2016, p. 9
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Simon Barnes receives Rothschild Award".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Simon Barnes, Doctor of Letters". University of Bristol.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Simon Barnes, author and journalist". Simon Barnes.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simon, Barnes. "Wild Notebook: Welcome to my new wet wild home in Norfolk". The Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Shocked Barnes says Times cannot afford his wages". Sports Journalists' Association. 26 June 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simon Barnes (12 April 2014). "We're going to watch gamekeepers like a hawk". The Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The curious case of Simon Barnes's departure from The Times". Mark Avery.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A clubbable man". Simon Barnes. 21 August 2014.
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