Alex Nunns

Nunns is political correspondent for Red Pepper;{{cite web|title=Alex Nunns|url=http://www.redpepper.org.uk/by/alex-nunns/|work=Red Pepper|accessdate=1 June 2012}} contributing articles on British politics and international developments. He has written for other outlets including Le Monde Diplomatique{{Cite news|url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/10/NUNNS/53931|title=Jeremy Corbyn, l'homme à abattre|date=2015-10-01|work=Le Monde diplomatique|access-date=2018-09-30|language=fr}} and Novara Media.{{Cite news|url=https://novaramedia.com/2017/01/08/how-the-guardian-changed-tack-on-corbyn-despite-its-readers/|title=How the Guardian Changed Tack on Corbyn, Despite Its Readers {{!}} Novara Media|work=Novara Media|access-date=2018-09-30|language=en}}

With Nadia Idle, Nunns co-edited Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it ({{ISBN|978-1-935928-45-4}}).{{Cite book|url=https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=E3251237-DA91-4AB8-A0C9-1BF953AE51AA|title=Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it|last=Nunns|first=Alex|last2=Idle|first2=Nadia|last3=Soueif|first3=Ahdaf|date=2011|publisher=OR Books|isbn=9781935928461|location=New York|language=English}} Published in April 2011, shortly after the initial uprising of the Egyptian Revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Tweets from Tahrir was the first book to use content from Twitter as the basis for a historical narrative.{{cite news|last=Harris|first=Androulla|title=New Statesman|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/11/tahrir-egyptian-book-tweets|accessdate=2 June 2012}}{{cite news|title=New York Times|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/tweets-from-tahrir-collects-egypt-posts-in-a-book/|accessdate=2 June 2012|first=Julie|last=Bosman|date=6 March 2011}} The book received wide praise, including from Robert Fisk of The Independent and Scott Malcomson of The New York Times.{{cite news|last=Fisk|first=Robert|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-but-what-if-the-spirit-of-rebellion-spread-to-iran-2273779.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425150657/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-but-what-if-the-spirit-of-rebellion-spread-to-iran-2273779.html |archive-date=2011-04-25 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=But what if the spirit of rebellion spread to Iran?|work=The Independent|accessdate=2 June 2012|location=London|date=23 April 2011}}{{cite news|last=Malcomson|first=Scott|url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/the-book-of-tweets/|title=The Book of Tweets|work=The New York Times Magazine|date=10 May 2011|accessdate=2 June 2012}} It was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in May 2012.{{cite web|title=The 2012 Shortlist|url=http://www.bread-and-roses.co.uk/|publisher=The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing|accessdate=1 June 2012}} In February 2012, the book inspired a TV documentary by Al Jazeera English.{{cite news|title=Al Jazeera: Tweets from Tahrir|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/2012/02/201221612278666943.html|accessdate=1 June 2012|newspaper=Al Jazeera|date=21 February 2012}}

Nunns' book on Jeremy Corbyn’s rise to the leadership of the Labour Party, The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, was first published in 2016. It won the 2017 Bread and Roses Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/nunn-wins-bread-and-roses-award-while-beaty-takes-little-rebels-prize-574361|title=Jeremy Corbyn exploration wins Bread and Roses Award {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-30}} Robert Potts in The Times Literary Supplement praised the book as a "very well-researched narrative" that was "widely sourced", commenting that “The story of how such an other-worldly figure became leader of the party simply by being himself is an oddly electrifying one”.{{cite news|last=Potts|first=Robert|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/corbyn-labour-party/|title=What is the Labour Party for?|work=The Times Literary Supplement|date=15 March 2017|accessdate=25 May 2018}} Stephen Bush of the New Statesman wrote that "Corbyn is at last given a wholly sympathetic hearing", the work being "the most authoritative yet published on his rise", but criticised it for a "lack of fluency around the animating issues of the Labour right".{{cite news|last=Bush|first=Stephen|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/11/alex-nunns-new-book-insightful-cant-settle-myth-corbyn|title=Alex Nunns' new book is insightful – but can't settle the myth of Corbyn|work=New Statesman|date=16 November 2016|accessdate=10 February 2017}} Gaby Hinsliff, in The Guardian, included The Candidate in an article about the best books on politics of 2016.{{cite news|last=Hinsliff|first=Gaby|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/01/best-politics-books-2016-gaby-hinsliff|title=The best politics books of 2016|work=The Guardian|date=1 December 2016|accessdate=10 February 2017}}

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