About Claire Scobie
Claire Scobie was born in Newbury, England, in 1972. After studying history at Cambridge, she worked for the Telegraph Magazine and in 1997 won the Catherine Pakenham Award for Best Young Woman Journalist of the Year.
She then moved to India and started her career as a freelance journalist. Around this time she joined an expedition to Tibet in search of a rare red lily. This would be the first of seven journeys to Tibet, which Claire chronicled in her book, Last Seen in Lhasa, winner of the 2007 Dolman Best Travel Book Award.
She writes for numerous publications including the Daily Telegraph, Glasgow Herald, the Observer Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine and is a contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Marie Claire Australia and the Qantas inflight magazine, The Australian Way.
Claire Scobie also runs writing workshops and teaches journalism at graduate level, and was a judge in the 2007 Australian Society of Travel Writers Travel Journalism Awards. She has considerable experience in moderating at author’s events and literary festivals.
Claire is a world traveller who has lived in Kathmandu, driven across China and visited remote indigenous communities throughout Australia. Her footage of Tibet has been shown on BBC3 and Channel 4.
She now lives in Sydney with her partner Aden.