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Lin Sampson
South African journalist · South Africa · On the map · Journalists · Born 1941 · age 85
Lin Sampson is a South African journalist who was born in Sri Lanka and educated in England. She has lived all over the world and was the editor of The Athens News. She was most recently a regular columnist for the Sunday Times magazine LifeStyle.
Lin Sampson is read in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Sampson has also been published by local magazines and titles outside South Africa such as The Independent, The Sunday Times and Tatler. In 2005 she published Now You've Gone and Killed Me, a collection of columns dating back to 1982 and with a foreword written by Rian Malan. Sampson is based in Cape Town.
