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Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Leigh Hunt, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British Royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales. He has also published translations of opera and Ancient Greek poetry as well as several autobiographical books about poker. In 2009, he was elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP).〔("Anthony Holden Heads Up International Federation of Poker" ) Jennifer Newell, ''Poker Works'' (25 June 2009)〕 ==Life== He was born in Southport, Lancashire, and educated at Oundle School and Merton College, Oxford, where he read English language and literature, edited the student magazine ''Isis'' and appeared on ''University Challenge''. A journalist before turning full-time writer, at the start of his career as a graduate trainee on Thomson Regional Newspapers' ''Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo'', Holden covered the trial in St Albans of the psychopathic poisoner, Graham Young. His book on the case, ''The St. Albans Poisoner'' (1974), was filmed as ''The Young Poisoner's Handbook'' (1995). Named Young Journalist of the Year in 1972, he was on the staff of ''The Sunday Times'' (1973–79), commended in the British Press Awards in 1976 as News Reporter of the Year for his work in Northern Ireland, and winning Columnist of the Year in 1977. He was Washington Correspondent and US editor of ''The Observer'' (1979–81), Assistant Editor of ''The Times'' (1981–82), Executive Editor, ''Today'', (1985–86), and chief classical music critic of ''The Observer'' (2002–08). In 1999–2000 he was an inaugural Fellow of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. When he was a ''Whitbread Prize'' judge in 2000 he said it would have been a "national humiliation" if ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' had won, ahead of Seamus Heaney's translation of ''Beowulf''. He had threatened to resign if that happened. The novelist Robert Harris derided this threat as "pompous."〔("Harry Potter in Literary Flap" ) Giles Elgood, ''Reuters'' (26 January 2000)〕 Holden was a member of the Board of Governors of the South Bank Centre 2002-8, during the landmark renovation programme under the chairmanship of Lord Hollick. Since 2006 he has been a Trustee of Shakespeare North Trust.〔(Shakespeare North: 'Patrons and Trustees' )〕 In May 2015 he gave the annual A.E. Housman lecture on the Name and Nature of Poetry at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.〔(Hay Festival — 'The Housman Lecture 2015: The Name and Nature of Poetry' )〕 He has also made frequent appearances on television, presenting such documentaries as ''Charles at Forty'' (ITV, 1988), ''Anthony Holden on Poker'' (BBC 2, 1991) and ''Who Killed Tchaikovsky?'' (''Omnibus'', BBC 1, 1993). In the mid-1980s he presented a weekly BBC Radio 4 chat show, ''In the Air''. Holden's papers are collected at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.〔(Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center: Anthony Holden )〕 He has been twice married, and has three sons and three grandchildren. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Holden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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