Paul Kingsnorth
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Paul Kingsnorth has worked in an orangutan rehabilitation centre in Borneo, as a peace observer in the rebel Zapatista villages of Mexico, as a floor-sweeper in McDonalds and as an assistant lock-keeper on the river Thames. He studied history at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994, was arrested during the Twyford Down road protests of 1993 and was named one of Britain's 'top ten troublemakers' by the New Statesman magazine in 2001.
Paul is an award-winning poet, an adviser to Mark Rylance, former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, and an honorary member of the Lani tribe of New Guinea. He has worked on the comment desk of the Independent, as commissioning editor for opendemocracy.net and as deputy editor of The Ecologist, the world's longest-running environmental magazine, for which he writes a monthly column. He is a director and co-founder of the Free West Papua Campaign.
Paul has written for or contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, Ecologist, New Internationalist, Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Wildlife, openDemocracy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC4, ITV and Resonance FM. He is the author of Your Countryside, Your Choice, a major report on the future of the countryside, published in 2005 by the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Paul's first book, One No, Many Yeses (Simon and Schuster, 2003), an investigative journey through the 'anti-globalisation' movement, was published in six languages in thirteen countries. He is currently writing a book on the destruction of landscape and community in England, which will be published by Portobello in 2008.
