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==Writing== ===Journalism=== Coren has been a [[restaurant critic]] for ''[[The Times]]'' since 2002, having previously been restaurant critic for Tatler magazine and The Independent on Sunday. He was named "Food And Drink Writer of the Year"<ref>{{cite news| url=https://nypost.com/2015/03/08/food-critics-are-out-of-touch-with-what-people-really-eat/ | work=New York Post | first=Steve | last=Cuozzo | title=Food critics are out of touch with what people really eat | date=8 March 2015}}</ref> at the 2005 [[British Press Awards]] and in 2016 was named Restaurant Writer of the Year at the [[Fortnum and Mason]] Awards.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/judges-toast-times-online-writers-nlztr58tx29 |title=Judges toast Times Online writers |date=16 March 2005 |access-date=30 September 2008 |last=McLennan |first=Louisa |work=The Times |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="thef">{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/f-word/series-1/q-and-a-giles-coren_p_1.html |title=Giles Coren Tells All |publisher=Channel 4 |date=6 September 2007 |access-date=30 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518005309/http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/f-word/series-1/q-and-a-giles-coren_p_1.html |archive-date=18 May 2008 }}</ref> As well as his restaurant work, he also contributes a regular column to ''The Times'', the subjects of which range from personal life to politics. Under the pseudonym Professor Gideon Garter he wrote ''The Intellectual's Guide to Fashion'' for ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/giles-coren|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112163104/http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/giles-coren|archive-date=12 November 2013|title=Author: Giles Coren|work=Random House|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref> According to a paper published in ''Journalism Practice'' by Dr. Peter English and Dr. David Fleischman, Coren is "a sharp, witty columnist who can write with tongue in cheek". According to an English study, the average grade in Coren's reviews in ''The Times'' was 6.86. Coren claims his average score is actually 6.3, but should be 5; however, he produces "no more than half a dozen really bad" reviews a year.<ref>English, Peter, and David Fleischman. "Food for Thought in Restaurant Reviews: Lifestyle journalism or an extension of marketing in the UK and Australian newspapers." Journalism Practice 13.1 (2019): 90-104.</ref> Coren has contributed articles to publications including ''[[Tatler]]'' and ''[[GQ]]''. In November 2014, he joined ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' as a columnist, writing weekly on city life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Time Out hires Giles Coren as columnist|url=http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/article/1320240/time-hires-giles-coren-columnist|website=Media Week|date=3 November 2014|access-date=20 December 2014}}</ref> ===Books=== Coren is credited by inventor [[James Dyson]] as the collaborator on his autobiography published in 1997.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dyson |first=James |author-link=James Dyson |url=https://archive.org/details/againstoddsautob0000dyso/page/n9/mode/2up |title=Against The Odds: An Autobiography |publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion Business]] |year=1997 |isbn=0-7528-0981-4 |publication-place=London |at="acknowledgements" page |quote=...I was flattered when he agreed to collaborate on this book. His clear synthesis of my long hours of rambling is nothing short of miraculous. |url-access=registration}}</ref> In 2005, he published his first novel, ''[[Winkler (novel)|Winkler]]'', reviewed in the ''[[New Statesman]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/node/162733|title=Fiction β Fockn' funny |work=New Statesman |last=Sooke |first=Alistair |date=29 August 2005 |access-date=30 September 2008}}</ref> and ''[[The Independent]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/winkler-by-giles-coren-319424.html |title=Winkler, by Giles Coren |last=Bywater |first=Michael |work=The Independent |date=14 October 2005 |access-date=30 September 2008 }}</ref> One section of the novel won the ''Literary Review'''s "[[Bad Sex in Fiction Award]]".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4488848.stm |title=Bad sex book prize for journalist |date=1 December 2005 |access-date=30 September 2008| work = BBC News }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1652812,00.html |title=The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award |work=The Guardian|date=28 November 2005 |access-date=30 September 2008}}</ref> Coren has also written two non-fiction books: the first, ''Anger Management (For Beginners)'', a compilation of columns he had written for ''The Times'', which was published in 2010;<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/what-makes-coren-so-cross-1986723.html | work=The Independent | title=What makes Coren so cross? | date=30 May 2010}}</ref> and his second, ''How To Eat Out'', which was published in 2012. Coren is the editor of the dining guide ''Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery: A Guide to the Truly Good Restaurants and Food Experiences of the UK''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://truthloveandcleancutlery.com/our-mission |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120180257/https://truthloveandcleancutlery.com/our-mission |url-status=usurped |archive-date=20 November 2018 |title=Our Mission - Ethical & Sustainable Restaurant Practices |work=Truthloveandcleancutlery.com |access-date=23 November 2018}}</ref>
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