Thursday, April 09, 2015

Booker prize chief Ion Trewin dies aged 71

Journalist turned publisher, whose achievements included editing Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark and Alan Clark’s Diaries, succumbs to cancer

Ion Trewin.
‘Friendly and sensible and wise’ ... Ion Trewin. Photograph: REX/Steve Black
Ion Trewin, the journalist turned publisher who went on to run the Man Booker prize, has died aged 71, the trustees of the Booker prize foundation have announced.

Trewin, who was diagnosed with cancer in October last year, kept all his irons in the fire almost until the end. His final journalistic assignment was the obituary of his Booker predecessor Martyn Goff, which appeared in the Guardian two weeks ago.

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