Background

Noel Malcolm was born on December 26, 1956, in Surrey, United Kingdom.

Education

Noel was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school near Windsor, Berkshire, as a King's Scholar. He also studied history at Peterhouse, Cambridge between 1974 and 1978. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in History while he was at Trinity College in Cambridge.

Career

Malcolm was a fellow and college lecturer of Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge from 1981 to 1988. He also worked as a political columnist in 1987 - 1991, and then as a the foreign editor in 1991 - 1992 of The Spectator, and a political columnist for the Daily Telegraph in 1992 - 1995.

In 1995 Noel gave up journalism to become a full-time writer. Malcolm served as a visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford in 1995 - 1996, and has been a senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford since 2002. He serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint. Moreover, he used to be the chairman of the Bosnian Institute in London, and the president of the Anglo-Albanian Association.

Malcolm has written many articles for newspapers, magazines and journals. Other than his work for The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Standpoint he has had articles published in The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, the New York Times, Washington Times, Time and the Daily Mail among other publications. He has also contributed book reviews mainly to The Sunday Telegraph. He has contributed to a number of scholarly journals including Foreign Affairs and the New York Review of Books.

Achievements

• In 2013, Noel was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book "Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan." Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history. In 2016, he was awarded the Presidential Gold Medal of the League of Prizren by the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi.

Works

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  • Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World 2015
  • Bosnia: A Short History 1996
  • Aspects of Hobbes 2004
  • Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: Editorial Introduction (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes) 2014
  • George Enescu: His Life and Music 1999
  • Kosovo: A Short History 1999
  • Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes 2010
  • The War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1991-1995 2001

Membership

• Royal Society of Literature

• British Academy

• Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo