Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the newspaper - The Guardian) and writer. Early life and education Educated at Huntington School, York, he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1994. Career Between 2006 and 2020 Burkeman wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life. He has reported from London, Washington and New York. He has his own blog. His published books are listed below. Works HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, 2011 (London: Canongate Books), ISBN 978-0-85786-025-5 The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, 2012 (London: Faber & Faber), ISBN 9780865479418 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, 2021 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN 9780374159122 Recognition Burkeman was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2006. He won the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award. In 2015 he won the FPA's Science Story of the Year for a piece on the mystery of consciousness.