Cristina Odone

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Cristina Odone
Born
Cristina Patricia Odone

(1960-11-11) 11 November 1960 (age 63) [1]
Nairobi, British Kenya
NationalityItalian-British
EducationMarymount School
National Cathedral School
St Clare's
Worcester College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer, TV commentator
Notable credit(s) The Catholic Herald (Editor)
New Statesman (Deputy Editor)
The Shrine
A Perfect Wife
The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew
The Good Divorce Guide
Spouse Edward Lucas
Children1
Parent
Family Lorenzo Odone (half-brother)
Website http://www.cristinaodone.com

Cristina Patricia Odone (born 11 November 1960) [1] is an Italian-British journalist, editor, and writer. She is the founder and chair of the Parenting Circle Charity. Odone is formerly the Editor of The Catholic Herald , Deputy Editor of the New Statesman [2] . She is currently Head of the Family Policy Unit at the Centre for Social Justice.

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Early life

Odone was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Italian father, Augusto Odone, and a Swedish mother. [2] [3] Her half-brother was Lorenzo Odone, after whom Lorenzo's oil is named. [4] [5]

Odone's father was a World Bank official, which led to the family regularly moving. Odone went initially to Marymount School, then later to the National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C. After her parents' divorce, [6] Odone moved to Britain to go to St Clare's, a boarding school in Oxford. [7] Odone studied French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford. [2] [7]

Journalist

Odone edited The Catholic Herald from 1991 to 1995. [2] [8] Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., as an advisor to European companies. [7] She resigned from The Catholic Herald to be able to finish her second novel, A Perfect Wife. [9] In 1996, Odone became the television critic for The Daily Telegraph , a position she held for two years. [2] [10]

In 1998, Odone became deputy editor of the New Statesman . [11] Odone resigned in November 2004. [12] For six years Odone was a weekly columnist for The Observer. [8] In 2005, Odone wrote and presented a Channel 4 documentary directed by David Malone called Dispatches: Women Bishops. [13]

Following a dispute with Johann Hari while they were colleagues at the New Statesman, Odone commented that pejorative changes were made to her Wikipedia entry. [14] It subsequently became apparent that Hari was responsible, using pseudonymous sockpuppet accounts to make edits attacking Odone and his critics. [15]

A frequent contributor to radio and television debates, Odone is presently a columnist for The Daily Telegraph. [16]

Published works

Odone has written four novels: The Shrine (1996), [17] A Perfect Wife (1997), [18] The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew (2008) [19] and The Good Divorce Guide (2009) [20] She contributed to Why I am still a Catholic (2005). [21]

Personal life

Odone is married to Edward Lucas, [2] a writer for The Economist magazine. [22] The couple have one child; Lucas has two children from a previous marriage. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Odone, Cristina (5 November 2006). "What a tangled web we are weaving". The Observer . London.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Cristina Odone". Curtis Brown. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Odone, Cristina (26 March 2006). "How well they knew us, those old masters". The Observer. London.
  4. ↑ Odone, Cristina (17 July 2005). "'Lorenzo's oil, which my father and stepmother invented, was vindicated'". London: The Observer.
  5. ↑ Odone, Cristina (4 June 2008). "Obituary: Lorenzo Odone". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  6. 1 2 Cristina Odone (31 October 2009). "The stepmothers' survival guide". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 Hebblethwaite, Peter (26 February 1993). "Lorenzo's sister edits Catholic paper". National Catholic Reporter.
  8. 1 2 "Cristina Odone". Centre for Policy Studies. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  9. ↑ Brown, Andrew (18 August 1996). "After the apocalypse, enter Ms Jones". The Independent.
  10. ↑ Cripps, Charlotte (12 November 2002). "Media: My greatest mistake: 32 – Cristina Odone, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 October 2010.
  11. ↑ Rowan, David (3 November 2004). "Interview: Cristina Odone, New Statesman (Evening Standard)". David Rowan. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006.
  12. ↑ Rowan, David (11 April 2004). "New Left is up to its old tricks". The Scotsman. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  13. ↑ Description of Dispatches programme
  14. ↑ Odone, Cristina (11 July 2011). "I fell out with Johann Hari – then 'David Rose' started tampering viciously with my Wikipedia entry". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  15. ↑ Green, David Allan (15 September 2011). "The tale of Mr Hari and Dr Rose". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  16. ↑ "Cristina Odone". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  17. ↑ Odone, Cristina (1996). The Shrine . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   0-297-81661-6.
  18. ↑ Odone, Cristina (1997). A Perfect Wife. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   0-297-81811-2.
  19. ↑ Odone, Cristina (2008). The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew. HarperPress. ISBN   0-00-726365-1.
  20. ↑ Odone, Cristina (2009). The Good Divorce Guide. HarperPress. ISBN   0-00-728973-1.
  21. ↑ Stanford, Peter (2005). Why I am still a Catholic. London: Continuum. ISBN   0-8264-8577-4.
  22. ↑ Odone, Cristina (21 January 2009). "How to meet and marry a man after 40". The Daily Telegraph. London.
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