account of everyday fatalities among young people across the US, which in 2017 won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Younge has also wrote a monthly column for The Nation, "Beneath the Radar". In the 2020 and 2021 Powerlist, Younge was listed in the Top 100 of the most influential people in the UK from African/African-Caribbean descent. The same year saw Younge become professor of sociology at Manchester University. In addition, Younge is on the 2020 list of 100 Great Black Britons. Personal life In 2011, he relocated to Chicago, where he lived with his wife Tara Mack, his son Osceola and daughter Zora until returning to Britain in 2015. In 2015, he announced his intention to move to Hackney, and now lives in London with his wife and two children. His brother Pat Younge is chief creative officer of BBC Vision. Awards and honours 2007: Honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University 2007: Honorary doctorate from London South Bank University 2009: James Cameron Award for the "combined moral vision and professional integrity" of his coverage of the Barack Obama election campaign 2015: Foreign Commentator of the Year by The Comment Awards 2015: David Nyhan Prize for political journalism from Harvard University's Shorenstein Center 2016: Sandford Award, "for radio, TV and online programmes that reflect religious, spiritual or ethical themes" 2016: Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) 2017: Honorary doctorate from Cardiff University 2017: James Aaronson Career Achievement Award from Hunter College, City University of New York 2020: Powerlist of the Top 100 most influential people in the UK of African/African-Caribbean descent. 2020: 100 Great Black Britons 2021: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Bibliography References External links Twitter Column archive at The Guardian Memoirs of a teenage Trot, The Guardian, 19 February 2000 Column archive at The Nation Article archive at Journalisted 1969 births Living people British male journalists British travel writers The Guardian journalists Alumni of City, University of London Alumni of Heriot-Watt University Black British writers British republicans English socialists The Nation (U.S. magazine) people Workers Revolutionary Party (UK) members People from Hitchin People from Stevenage British people of Barbadian descent Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Writers from Chicago 21st-century British journalists 21st-century British male writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Male non-fiction writers