Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Hugh O'Shaughnessy (born 21 January 1935) is an Irish journalist and writer.

Hugh O'Shaughnessy was educated at Worcester College, Oxford where he received a BA in Modern Languages. He has written for over 40 years for major newspapers including The Economist, The Observer, The Independent, The Irish Times, the Financial Times and most frequently The Guardian; and he has made many reports for BBC News. O'Shaughnessy has published a number of books and articles focusing on Latin American politics, making many trips to Central and South America in order to study social and political issues. He was a friend of Chilean president Salvador Allende. He is also the author of commentaries on the politics of Catholicism.[1][2][3] He is founder of the Latin America Bureau.[4]

O'Shaughnessy has several awards, including two British Press Awards, the 1986 Maria Moors Cabot prize for journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding and the Wilberforce Medallion from the city of Hull. He has been recognised by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.[5][6][7]

He lives in London. He married Georgina Alliston (1937-2011, daughter of architect Jane Drew) in 1961, and they had four children.

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