Ian Jack

Ian Jack is a Scottish journalist who was the editor of the literary magazine Granta from 1995 to 2007. Granta 98 The Deep End was the 48th issue which he edited and the last. Jack was educated at Dunfermline High School. After working on several newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s, he was a journalist at The Sunday Times from 1970 to 1986, working as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent in India, from where he covered the Indian Subcontinent and regional hotspots including Afghanistan. Between 1977 and 1989, he lived mainly in Calcutta,and New Delhi. He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited the paper from 1991 to 1995. Jack left the title to join Granta as its editor, staying in the post until May 2007. A contributor to The Guardian for many years, Jack currently writes a weekly column and other articles for the newspaper. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. He also writes periodically for The Telegraph of Calcutta. In 2009, Jack published a collection of essays and unpublished writings entitled The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain.