{{Short description|British writer and journalist (born 1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = | honorific suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1952}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | education = Wellington College | alma_mater = Magdalene College, Cambridge | other_names = | known_for = | credits = ''London Review of Books'' | awards = | occupation = Writer and journalist | website = }} '''Jeremy Harding''' (born 1952)<ref name="theguardian-adie">{{cite news|first1=Kate|last1=Adie|author-link=Kate Adie|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Review: Mother Country by Jeremy Harding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/may/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview29|newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 May 2006|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> is a British writer and journalist, based in the south of France. He is a contributing editor at ''London Review of Books''. He is the author of books including ''Small Wars, Small Mercies'' (1993), ''The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate'' (2000), ''Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy'' (2006), and ''Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World'' (2012).
==Life and work== Harding was born in London, England, where he was placed for adoption at 11 days old by his Irish mother.<ref name="ft-tilney">{{cite web|date=17 March 2006|first1=Ludovic|last1=Hunter-Tilney|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Father fissure|url=https://www.ft.com/content/233591ea-b4a4-11da-bd61-0000779e2340|website=www.ft.com}}</ref> He grew up in West London.<ref name="theguardian-adie"/> He tells the story of his adoption and the search for his biological mother in the book ''Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy'' (2006).<ref>{{cite news|first1=Carl|last1=Wilkinson|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Review: Mother Country by Jeremy Harding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/04/features.review3|newspaper=The Observer|date=4 March 2007|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> He was later educated at Wellington College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English.<ref>"Cambridge tripos results: English and Economics", ''The Times'', 9 July 1973, p. 16.</ref>
Harding is a contributing editor at the ''London Review of Books''.<ref name="theguardian-kellaway">{{cite news|first1=Kate|last1=Kellaway|author-link=Kate Kellaway|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Interview: Jeremy Harding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/mar/26/biography.features|newspaper=The Observer|date=26 March 2006|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> He lives in France, an hour from Bordeaux, with his wife and three sons.<ref name="theguardian-kellaway"/>
==Publications== ===Publications by Harding=== *''Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa's Disputed Nations''. London: Penguin, 1993. {{ISBN|9780140134339}}. **''The Fate of Africa: Trial by Fire''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. {{ISBN|9780671723590}}. *''The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate'' (2000).<ref>{{cite news|first1=Neal|last1=Ascherson|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Any port in a storm for determined migrants|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/may/18/guardianweekly|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 May 2000|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Anthony|last1=Daniels|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Don't shoot the gatekeeper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jul/01/politics.society|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 July 2000|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> *''Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy'' (2006).<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Mother Country, by Jeremy Harding {{!}} A Forever Family, by John Houghton|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/mother-country-by-jeremy-hardinga-forever-family-by-john-houghton-480685.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/mother-country-by-jeremy-hardinga-forever-family-by-john-houghton-480685.html |archive-date=8 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=2 June 2006|website=The Independent|first=Judith|last=Palmer}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Rachel|last1=Cooke|author-link=Rachel Cooke|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Observer review: Mother Country by Jeremy Harding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/09/biography.features|newspaper=The Observer|date=8 April 2006|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> *''Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World'' (2012).<ref>{{cite news|first1=Andy|last1=Beckett|access-date=2020-03-04|title=Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World by Jeremy Harding – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/16/border-vigils-jeremy-harding-review|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 November 2012|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> *''Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination''. London: Verso Books, 2026. {{ISBN|9781804295960}}.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Analogue_Africa.html?id=zuIzEQAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y ''Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination''], via Google Books.</ref>
===Publications with contributions by Harding=== *''Arthur Rimbaud: Selected Poems and Letters''. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0140448023}}. Translated by Harding and John Sturrock.
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