Jason Cowley
| Jason Cowley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 England |
| Education | Latton Bush School |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Occupation | English journalist |
| Website | http://jasoncowley.net |
Jason Cowley (born 1965) is an English journalist, magazine editor and writer. After working at the New Statesman, he became the editor of Granta in September 2007, while also remaining a writer on The Observer. He returned to the New Statesman as its editor in September 2008.
Cowley was brought up in the town of Harlow in Essex. He was educated at Latton Bush School, a former state comprehensive school in Harlow, followed by the University of Southampton, from which he graduated in 1989 with a first class degree in English and Philosophy.
In the early 1990s, Cowley began publishing reviews, literary essays and articles in British newspapers and magazines before, in 1996, becoming a staff writer on The Times, during which period he was a judge of the Booker Prize for fiction. In the summer of 1998, he became literary editor of the New Statesman; later he was a contributing editor of the magazine. Meanwhile, he continued to write on a range of subjects, including literature, sport and politics.
In 2003, Cowley joined the staff of The Observer working there as editor of The Observer Sport Monthly magazine and as a contributor. Under his editorship the magazine won numerous awards. He left The Observer to become editor of the literary magazine Granta.
Cowley's novel, Unknown Pleasures, was published by Faber & Faber in 2000 and a second book, a work of narrative non-fiction called The Last Game: Love, Death and Football, was published by Simon & Schuster in spring 2009.
Cowley was appointed as the editor of the New Statesman magazine on 16 May 2008. and took up his new position in September 2008. Cowley's philosophy for the New Statesman was to explore ideas across the political spectrum, saying 'I want to use the pages of the magazine to explore political ideas on both left and right.' On 10 November 2009, he won the British Society of Magazine Editors' Editor of the Year award in the Special Interest and Current Affairs Magazines category. The judges said that Cowley had transformed the New Statesman and 'created issues of the magazine that were the envy of the industry'.
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