Minette Marrin is a journalist, broadcaster and fiction writer. Formerly a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, she is now a columnist for the Sunday Times, shortlisted for Columnist of the Year at the 2004 Press Awards.

She has also written for the Spectator, the Guardian, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Observer, the Literary Review, Granta and others, on subjects from current affairs to books, food and arts and contributes to television and radio programmes.

Previously, after a BBC TV traineeship, she worked in documentaries for several years and co-presented the arts programme Saturday Review, a precursor to the Late Show.

While at university she won a Granta short story competition and the Vogue Talent Competition. She is the author of The Eye of the Beholder (Faber & Faber).

Minette has a special interest in learning disabilities and was a trustee of The Home Farm Trust (which provides services for people with learning disabilities) from 1996 to 2005. She was also, until May 2006, a member of the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.

In 2000-01 she was a contributing member of the Working Party, producing ‘Women in Hospital Medicine, Career Choices and Opportunities, A report of a working party of the Federation of Royal College of Physicians’.

She is a member of the council of the Centre for Policy Studies.