The new romantic – Interview, Nick Cave
THE TIMES - March 27 1999 - Ginny Dougary Not many rock stars write novels and biblical commentaries or give recitals on love at the Royal Festival Hall. But, with years behind him as the ultimate bad...
View ArticlePaul Foot named journalist of decade
THE GUARDIAN - Saturday February 26, 2000 Paul Baldwin The Guardian writers, Paul Foot and Clare Hollingworth, were yesterday honoured for their campaigning journalism in the annual What the Papers Say...
View ArticleSecrets of a sexual innocent
THE AGE - May 27 2002 Ginny Dougary Greengage Harris tweed jacket. Matching-coloured eyes which glisten with merriment as though he is enjoying an ongoing private joke. An imposing nose, flared...
View ArticleEdge of darkness
The Sunday Times - July 05, 2003 - Ginny Dougary P. D. James’s crime thrillers delve into the shadows of our consciousness, often shocking us with their unflinching, sometimes brutal, realism. But...
View ArticleDaddy cool
TIMES MAGAZINE - June 26, 2004 Ginny Dougary He may be pushing 80, but writers don't come cooler than Elmore Leonard, with Hollywood players from Tarantino to Malkovich beating a path to his door....
View ArticleDavid, Kimberly, Boris and Petsy: it’s showtime
THE TIMES - April 13, 2005 Ginny Dougary The lyricist for David Blunkett: The Musical, reveals how the show was inspired and explains why the real-life characters are perfect for the stage. Related...
View ArticleThe incredible lightness of Salman
THE TIMES - August 20 2005 Ginny Dougary Salman Rushdie has emerged from the dark Satanic years, happier and more buoyant than he has been in decades. Here, he talks to Ginny Dougary about the war on...
View ArticleThe voice of experience
Times Online - September 09, 2006 - Ginny Dougary At 57, Martin Amis’s days as the enfant terrible of British fiction are long gone, yet he still has the unerring ability to shock. Ginny Dougary hears...
View ArticleFor the sake of integrity, keep the PR meisters at bay
Times Online - February 22, 2007 - Ginny Dougary A few weeks ago, this paper was offered an interview with the actress Uma Thurman, which, in turn, was offered to me. Actors do not generally feature...
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Educating Piers
Times Magazine - April 7, 2007 - Ginny Dougary Fired as editor of The Mirror, Piers Morgan published a bestselling diary of his rollercoaster career. Now the former tabloid bad boy is back and talks to...
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Culture vulture
The Times - May 12 2007 - Ginny Dougary Once famous for his barbed dissection of tacky TV, Clive James all the while was living a life of the mind. Our correspondent meets a modern polymath as he...
View ArticleThe gentrification of Irvine Welsh
The Times, June 28, 2008 - Ginny Dougary As well known for his epic drug taking as his iconic tales, Irvine Welsh seems now to be embracing middle age. But as he unveils his new novel, Ginny Dougary...
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Lady Antonia Fraser’s life less ordinary
The Times, July 5, 2008 - Ginny Dougary In a frank interview, the famed writer talks about motherhood, Catholicism, her parents and soulmate Harold Pinter Lady Antonia Fraser adjusts her pearls, gazes...
View ArticleHeston Blumenthal: the alchemist
The Times, October 25, 2008 - Ginny Dougary You don’t just eat at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant, you have a whole sensory experience. Ginny Dougary drops by his laboratory to talk the science...
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Arianna Huffington: The superblogger
The Times, November 01, 2008 - Ginny Dougary Born in Greece, educated at Cambridge and now the queen of Capitol Hill: Arianna Huffington’s superblog has made her one of the most influential political...
View ArticleBritish Press Awards 2009:nominations
Interviewer of the year Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian Elizabeth Day, The Observer Ginny Dougary, The Times Lynn Barber, The Observer Robert Chalmers, Independent on...
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The many lives of Rebecca Miller
The Times July 4, 2009 - Ginny Dougary Daughter of Arthur Miller, wife of Daniel Day-Lewis... It would have been easy for Rebecca Miller to be overwhelmed by the male presences in her life. Here she...
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Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life
The Times January 30, 2010 - Ginny Dougary Oxford’s first female Professor of Poetry resigned amid a allegations of academic back-stabbing. So what on earth brought on her ‘moment of lunacy’ ? How...
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Peter Mandelson, the interview – Part One: the new Labour feud
Ginny Dougary The Times July 2010 Peter Mandelson saw himself as the third man at the heart of New Labour Chris Harris for The Times. Since Peter Mandelson is not a man on whom humility is known to sit...
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John Pawson: the man who made us minimalists
Ginny Dougary The Times September 2010 The architect talks to Ginny Dougary about monks, Martha Stewart and plans for the Design Museum’s new home. John Pawson, the überminimalist designer and...
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