Orwell Prize in 2012 and was named Columnist of the Year 2010 at the WorkWorld Media Awards. Broadcasting Williams has appeared as a guest on television. Clive James praised her appearance in documentary Teenage Kicks: the Search for Sophistication: "The brilliant journalist Zoe Williams did a short piece to camera that was almost an aria." She has presented a radio documentary Inside the Academy School Revolution, which Miranda Sawyer found one-sided and "tame", and hosted BBC Radio 4's What The Papers Say. She has been a panellist on the BBC's Any Questions and Question Time. Criticism In February 2020, Williams was criticised online and in Nation.Cymru for her comments about the Welsh language. Her article on exercise criticised a particular Canadian fitness regime as "hard and existentially pointless", continuing: "all that energy spent, no distance covered: it's like eating cottage cheese or learning Welsh." Williams had previously praised the language on Twitter for giving Welsh speakers "a more international outlook". In 2020, Kent Live reported criticism of Williams following an altercation that resulted in Williams being told to leave a Wetherspoons pub in Ramsgate, on the basis that she had broken the COVID-19 lockdown rules then in force. Williams had written about the incident in The Guardian. Personal life Williams lives in South London, with her second husband, Will Higham, and his daughter from another marriage, as well as her son, Thurston, and daughter, Harper, who were fathered by her first husband before she married him. Williams married the father, a geologist, of her son and daughter in 2013 after ten years together and wrote about the wedding from a feminist perspective in her column for The Guardian. In 2018, after divorce, Williams married for the second time. Williams became a trustee of the Butler Trust—which was established to recognise the achievements of prison service staff—in November 2013. Williams is a patron of Humanists UK. References External links 1973 births Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford British feminists British journalists Living people People educated at Godolphin and Latymer School The Guardian journalists