Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77

Writer who also edited Independent on Sunday remembered as one of the best in British journalism

Ian Jack, the Guardian columnist and former editor of Granta and the Independent on Sunday, has died at the age of 77 after a short illness.

Jack was a gifted writer, a brilliant and imaginative editor, and a mentor to younger journalists. His last piece for the Guardian, published a week ago, was marking the centenary of the BBC, one of the world's great cultural projects". He wrote: It looks unlikely that Britain will ever again invent anything so admired and influential; we have been lucky to have it."

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