Andrew Sanger - travel writer and editor

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BIOGRAPHY

I've been a professional, full-time writer of travel guides and features for some 25 years. My principal specialities are France (all regions), Ireland (including Northern Ireland), and Israel (especially Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Galilee). I'm now based in London, England.

Always freelance, I have wide experience of UK national newspapers, consumer magazines, websites, guidebook writing and travel publishing. I also write under the name Jane Pitt.

In addition to my travel writing, I am involved in many other activities and causes, including other kinds of writing - I have published one novel and am about to publish another.

2003-2008 I'm now the author of around 30 travel books and guides, mostly on France, but also Ireland, Israel, the Canary Islands and guides for vegetarians. I have spent the last four years writing new guidebooks and updating or revising existing titles for new editions or re-launches. Most of my books have been translated (German, Dutch, Norwegian, Hebrew, Polish ...) and many are available in American editions. I am currently also a freelance contributor to several magazines and websites, while continuing to build my own travel website.

In 2000-2002 In this period I focused on writing for AA Publishing and Thomas Cook Publishing, having six original new books published by them in two years.

From 1990-1999 Throughout these 10 years, I was the editor of the French Railways/Rail Europe customer magazine Rail Europe (originally called Top Rail, circulation 200,000), a travel magazine about Europe for rail travellers, as well as writing guidebooks and some articles. During part of the period I was also travel editor of Ford Magazine (circulation 1,000,000), Vegetarian Living (circulation not known) and the insurance customer magazine Foresight (circulation 1,000,000).

In the 1980s In this period I contributed hundreds of articles to the British national press, especially the Observer, Guardian, Evening Standard, Mail-on-Sunday, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Sunday Times, and women's magazine Options.

more biography / the past

Born in London in 1948, I've always lived and worked as a freelance. I didn't get into writing 'til the age of 30. Before that I travelled light and did whatever came to hand ... farm labouring, truck driving, English tuition.

I have lived in several countries, including Greece, India, Tunisia, and the USA, and most of all have had a lifelong involvement with France. My home was the Languedoc region in the south of France for a number of years.

I'm a frequent visitor to France and also to Israel, where my parents used to live. I'm fascinated by: cultures in conflict, sense of place, the Mediterranean world.

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AWARDS

* ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards - London, 2007 (Finalist - in 2nd place for best online article on France);
* ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards - London, 2002 (Finalist - Andrew Sanger occupying two of the top four positions for the best travel writing on France);
* Communicators In Business Awards - London, 1998 (Certificate of Merit for a Relaunched Publication - Editor);
* Travelex Travel Writers' Awards - London, 1996 (Category winner, Best trade press article - 'Van Gogh's Visions of France' in Rail Europe Magazine);
* Travelex Travel Writers' Awards - London, 1994 (Category winner, Best consumer magazine article - 'O Come All Ye Faithful' (about the Galilee, Israel) in BBC Holidays Magazine.

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SPECIALITIES AND EXPERTISE

France (all regions, especially North, South, Burgundy and Paris)
Greece (I've written about many of the islands and the mainland too)
Ireland (whole island, including Dublin and Northern Ireland)
Israel (especially Tel Aviv and Galilee - also general tourism and resort news)
Lanzarote & Tenerife (two of Spain's Canary Islands)
Family travel (unlike most travel writers, I prefer to take the family)
Vegetarian travel (I have travelled constantly for over 30 years, always as a vegetarian)

Contact me ...
... if you need original ideas or high-quality, well-researched travel writing for newspapers, magazines, brochures, customer magazines, guidebooks or websites.