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OBITUARY
Allen Quicke
Editor-in-Chief of Asia Times Online
It is with deep regret that we announce that Allen Quicke, Editor-in-Chief of
Asia Times Online, died on Tuesday night, August 17. He was 57 years old.
Allen's association with ATol dates from early 2000, when he became a founding
member of a small team that started an Internet version of Asia Times, a print
newspaper that had ceased publication in 1997; Allen had also worked for that
paper.
From a readership of zero, Allen, with uncompromising passion and commitment,
laid the foundations, and over the years built on these, to take ATol where it
is today, a vibrant site with more than 100,000 individual readers a day.
Over the past year, Allen had focussed those same considerable energies on
developing a parallel paid site to Atimes.com, Atimes.net.
Allen George Quicke was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, in 1953.
He completed his high school at Maritzburg College, then spent a compulsory
year in the army before beginning an architecture degree at Natal University.
He soon realized that was not for him, and he switched to, and completed, a
Fine Arts degree - he had discovered the artist in him, a quality that was to
drive him over his career.
His journalistic career began as a sub-editor at the Natal Witness in
Pietermaritzburg. It was soon evident that he had a flair, love and aptitude
for words. The next stops were the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and then the
Sydney Morning Herald in Australia.
At this point the artist came to the fore, and Allen exiled himself to the bush
in Australia to devote himself full time to painting. He was rather proud that
he lived the life of a solitary artist, and he always spoke with great fondness
of these years.
In 1995, somewhat reluctantly, he accepted an offer to return to the world of
journalism, at Asia Times in Bangkok, where he soon carved a niche for himself
as an illustrator of special talent.
Allen was a perfectionist and demanded the same from his colleagues; if there
is a typo in this Allen, we know your ever-eagle eye would have spotted it.
Our deepest condolences go to Allen's family and to his friends. From Asia
Times Online, our thanks for making it happen.
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