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Jonathan Coe

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English novelist

United KingdomWritersBorn 1961 · age 65
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Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name.

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2012Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2005Baillie Gifford Prize
2001Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
1998Prix Médicis étranger
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

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Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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living
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Born 1961 · age 65
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20 languages

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