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Michael Hodges is an award winning author and journalist. He is the holder of the 2008 Press Gazette Awards Columnist of the Year prize for his weekly Slice of Life column in Time Out and a former PPA British magazine Writer of the Year. Hodges was awarded the Campaign for Racial Equality Race in the Media Prize in 2006.

AK47: The Story of the People’s Gun has been translated and published in nine territories and was a New Yorker pick of the week. His biography KEVIN KEEGAN – Reluctant Messiah, was published in 1998 and again in 2007 (Pan Macmillan). His essays and sports journalism appeared in The Cult of the Manager (Virgin 1998) and The Best of the Season: The pick of British Football Writing (Ebury 1999).

Hodges also contributed to 1,000 Books to Change Your Life (Ebury, 2008) and Flight Free Europe (Ebury 2007). He wrote the chapters on drugs and on Ken Livingstone in London Calling – 40 Years of Time Out (Ebury 2008).

Hodges is a regular contributor to the Financial Times Weekend magazine and the New Statesman. His reporting from the war in Iraq and the conflict in Palestine has appeared in the Financial Times, Jack and Esquire. In 2008 Hodges was the launch editor of Time Out Beirut and he continues to work in and report from the Middle East.