Alison Kervin
Encyclopedia
Alison Kervin is an award-winning journalist, biographer and novelist.
newspaper where she wrote a weekly interview – The Kervin Interview – for three years, then she became Chief Sports Interviewer of The Daily Telegraph before going freelance. Recently she has worked as a consultant to Harper Collins Publishers, media trainer for UK Sport, and she was consultant editor on the Official Olympic Souvenir programme.
Kervin has written seven sport-related books including Denise Lewis
: Personal Best, Jason Leonard
: The Autobiography, Sports Writing, The Unofficial Guide to the Rugby World Cup and Clive Woodward
: The Biography, the autobiography of Phil Vickery and Thirty Bullies. She has also ghost-written a number of columns for The Times
, including Jonny Wilkinson's.
Before working as a newspaper and magazine interviewer, Kervin was The Times
’ rugby editor for two years, and prior to that she was editor of Rugby World
– the biggest selling rugby magazine in the world. She has also worked on Golf Monthly and Women & Golf.
She has also worked as a journalist for publications as diverse as The Spectator
, New Statesman
, Company
, Woman’s Own, Vogue
, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That’s Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday
, The Daily Telegraph
, Country Life
and Tatler
. She currently works as the Chief Sports Interviewer for the Daily Telegraph.
Kervin worked for the Rugby Football Union as the public relations manager of the England team and was the first woman presenter on Rugby Special and the first woman to referee at Twickenham. She also holds coaching qualifications in ten sports, and sits on numerous judging panels including the BAFTAS, BBC Sports Personality of the Year
, Laureus International Sports Awards and the Magazine Journalist and Sports Journalist of the Year Awards.
and The Sunday Times
. She was also Woman of Achievement in Cosmopolitan
magazine and won Feature Writer of the Year, Interviewer of the Year and Magazine Editor of the Year in the IPC
magazine awards.
Fiction writing
Kervin has previously written 11 books, including four novels (The WAG’s Diary, A WAG Abroad and WAGs at the World Cup). Her third novel Celebrity Bride was published in June 2009 and Wags At the World Cup was published in 2010.Sports Writing
Kervin was formerly the Chief Sports Feature Writer of The TimesThe Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
newspaper where she wrote a weekly interview – The Kervin Interview – for three years, then she became Chief Sports Interviewer of The Daily Telegraph before going freelance. Recently she has worked as a consultant to Harper Collins Publishers, media trainer for UK Sport, and she was consultant editor on the Official Olympic Souvenir programme.
Kervin has written seven sport-related books including Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis OBE is a retired British athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.-2000 Olympics:...
: Personal Best, Jason Leonard
Jason Leonard
Jason Leonard OBE , also known as "The Fun Bus", is an English former rugby union prop forward who held the world record for winning the most international caps until 2005, when it was surpassed by Australia's scrum-half George Gregan...
: The Autobiography, Sports Writing, The Unofficial Guide to the Rugby World Cup and Clive Woodward
Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Ronald Woodward OBE is an English former rugby union player and coach. He was coach of the team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He is currently the British Olympic Association's Director of Elite Performance.-Early life:Woodward was born in Ely...
: The Biography, the autobiography of Phil Vickery and Thirty Bullies. She has also ghost-written a number of columns for The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, including Jonny Wilkinson's.
Before working as a newspaper and magazine interviewer, Kervin was The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
’ rugby editor for two years, and prior to that she was editor of Rugby World
Rugby World
Rugby World is the world's top-selling rugby union magazine. It is published monthly by IPC Media and edited by Paul Morgan. Long considered a leader in the industry, the magazine has benefited from a worldwide rise in interest in rugby following the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup.-See also:* Bill...
– the biggest selling rugby magazine in the world. She has also worked on Golf Monthly and Women & Golf.
She has also worked as a journalist for publications as diverse as The Spectator
The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
, New Statesman
New Statesman
New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
, Company
Company (magazine)
Company magazine is a monthly fashion, celebrity and lifestyle magazine published in the United Kingdom.It celebrated its 30th birthday in 2008, and in that time has had only six editors: Maggie Goodman, Gil Hudson, Mandi Norwood, Fiona Macintosh, Sam Baker, and the current editor - Victoria...
, Woman’s Own, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That’s Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...
, The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
, Country Life
Country Life (magazine)
Country Life is a British weekly magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street, and owned by IPC Media, a Time Warner subsidiary.- Topics :The magazine covers the pleasures and joys of rural life, as well as the concerns of rural people...
and Tatler
Tatler
Tatler has been the name of several British journals and magazines, each of which has viewed itself as the successor of the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. The current incarnation, founded in 1901, is a glossy magazine published by Condé Nast Publications...
. She currently works as the Chief Sports Interviewer for the Daily Telegraph.
Kervin worked for the Rugby Football Union as the public relations manager of the England team and was the first woman presenter on Rugby Special and the first woman to referee at Twickenham. She also holds coaching qualifications in ten sports, and sits on numerous judging panels including the BAFTAS, BBC Sports Personality of the Year
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of one titular award. Several new awards have been introduced, and , eight awards are presented. The oldest of these are the Team of the Year and...
, Laureus International Sports Awards and the Magazine Journalist and Sports Journalist of the Year Awards.
Awards
Kervin was short-listed for the 2004 and 2005 Interviewer of the Year award for her work on The TimesThe Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
and The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
. She was also Woman of Achievement in Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
magazine and won Feature Writer of the Year, Interviewer of the Year and Magazine Editor of the Year in the IPC
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...
magazine awards.