Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson FRSL (born 1961) is an English author and biographer best known for his definitive biography Primo Levi: A Life (2002), which won the Royal Society of Literature's W. H. Heinemann Award, and his reportage The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (2009), recipient of the RSL Ondaatje Prize and Dolman Travel Book Award. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he has also written acclaimed travel books like Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti (1992) and contributes to major publications as a journalist and translator. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Senior Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia.