Lucy Mangan

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Lucy Mangan
Born1974 (age 50–51)
Education Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Writer
  • television critic
Employer The Guardian
Children1
Website theguardian.com

Lucy Mangan (born 1974) is a British journalist and author. She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for The Guardian and an opinion writer for The i Paper .

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Early life and education

Mangan was born in 1974 [1] and grew up in Catford, southeast London, to parents originally from Lancashire. [2] Her father worked in theatre, and her mother was a doctor. [3]

She studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor, but worked in a bookshop until she found a work experience placement at The Guardian in 2003. [2] [4]

Career

Journalism

Mangan writes a regular column, TV reviews, and occasional features at The Guardian, [5] [6] and is an opinion writer for The i Paper. [7] A major part of her writing is related to feminism. [8] [9]

As of November 2025The Guardian has given only 15 zero-star reviews, two of them by Mangan. In 2021 Mangan gave a zero-star review to the film Sex, Unzipped, remarking that the film "is a TV disgrace". [10] In 2025 Mangan gave a zero-star review to television series All's Fair , describing the show as "Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible". [11]

Mangan also has a regular column for Stylist magazine. [12]

Books

Mangan's book My Family and other Disasters (2009) is a collection of her newspaper columns. She has also written books about her childhood and her wedding. [2] [4]

Her debut novel, Are We Having Fun Yet?, was published in 2021. The Scotsman's Kirsty McLuckie gave the novel a glowing review, describing the book as "a work of genius". [13]

Other activities

Mangan has been a judge for the BookTrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize. [14]

Recognition and awards

Mangan won the columnist of the year award at the Professional Publishers Association Awards in 2013, [15] and was shortlisted for the critic of the year award at The British Press Awards in 2019. [16]

Personal life

Mangan and her husband have a son. [17] [4]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Hughes, Kathryn (10 March 2018). "Bookworm by Lucy Mangan review – an enchanting memoir of childhood reading". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Feminist education has been the making of me Interview with The Daily Telegraph, 6 May 2013
  3. ↑ Mangan, Lucy (10 February 2016). "I'd never kissed a Tory - then I married one". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Biography at Blake Freidman Agent's page, accessed March 2016
  5. ↑ Lucy Mangan's page at the Guardian Last accessed March 2016
  6. ↑ Mangan, Lucy (25 July 2019). "Inside the Bruderhof review – is this a religious stirring I feel?". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "Lucy Mangan".
  8. ↑ Mangan on her feminism, The Guardian, 19 September 2009
  9. ↑ "Lucy Mangan's weekend column + Feminism – Lifeandstyle". The Guardian.
  10. ↑ Mangan, Lucy (26 October 2021). "Sex: Unzipped review – perverse Sesame Street is a TV disgrace". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  11. ↑ Mangan, Lucy (4 November 2025). "All's Fair review – Kim Kardashian's divorce drama is fascinatingly, existentially terrible". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  12. ↑ Lucy Mangan's page at Stylist magazine Accessed March 2016
  13. ↑ "Book review: Are We Having Fun Yet?, by Lucy Mangan". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  14. ↑ "Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012". www.booktrust.org.uk. Book Trust. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "Lucy Mangan wins Columnist of the Year at PPA Awards!". Blake Friedmann. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  16. ↑ "National Press Awards Shortlist – Society of Editors" . Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  17. ↑ Mangan, Lucy (18 March 2011). "Lucy Mangan is Outspoken: "I'll never take my husband's last name"". Stylist. Retrieved 11 January 2020.


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