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Patrick Oliver Cockburn ( ; born 5 March 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the ''Financial Times'' and, since 1991, ''The Independent''. He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the ''London Review of Books''. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009,〔 Foreign Commentator of the Year (Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2013), Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year (British Journalism Awards 2014), Foreign Reporter of the Year (The Press Awards For 2014). Seymour Hersh has described him as the "best western journalist at work in Iraq today." ==Early life and family== Cockburn was born in Ireland and grew up in County Cork. His parents were the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn and Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot, author of the book ''Figure of Eight.'' He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, and Trinity College, Oxford.〔''The Broken Boy'', (here ).〕 He was a research student at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast, from 1972 to 1975. Cockburn married in 1981 Janet Elisabeth ("Jan") Montefiore (14 November 1948), Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, daughter of the late Bishop Hugh Montefiore, and has two children, Henry Cockburn (4 January 1982) and Alexander Cockburn (17 April 1987).〔Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes'' (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 120. 〕 He had two brothers, also journalists, the late Alexander Cockburn, who died in 2012, and Andrew Cockburn, and a half-sister, mystery writer Sarah Caudwell. Journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders are his nieces, daughters of his half-sister Claudia Flanders, and civil rights lawyer Chloe Cockburn and actress Olivia Wilde are his nieces, daughters of Andrew and Leslie Cockburn. 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「Patrick Cockburn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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