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Jonathan Coe

Born: 19th August 1961
Birmingham, UK
Occupation: novelist
Nationality: British
Writing period: 1987-present
Genres: satire

Jonathan Coe, born 19th August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer. His work usually has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this is often expressed seriously in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworked the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name, in the light of the 'carve up' of the UK's resources which some felt was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s. He studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the University of Warwick. Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Jonathan_Coe. ... Birmingham (pron. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... (Redirected from 19th August) August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Birmingham (pron. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... King Edwards School King Edwards School (KES) (grid reference SP052836) is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names King’s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The University of Warwick coat of arms The University of Warwick is one of the leading universities in the United Kingdom. ...


Both What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club have been adapted as drama serials for BBC Radio 4; The Rotters' Club (which was set in a very lightly fictionalised version of his old school in the 1970s KES) was also adapted for television and broadcast on BBC Two. The Dwarves of Death was filmed as Five Seconds to Spare. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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Novels

Charlotte Burton Harry von Meter A Touch of Love was a 1915 American silent short film directed by Tom Ricketts starring Charlotte Burton, Jack Richardson, Vivian Rich and Harry von Meter. ... Cover of the 1995 edition by Penguin Books What A Carve Up! is a novel written by Jonathan Coe, first published in 1994. ... Cover of the 1995 edition by Penguin Books What A Carve Up! is a novel written by Jonathan Coe, first published in 1994. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based literary prize. ... The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The Closed Circle, by Jonathan Coe, was published in 2004, and is the sequel to The Rotters Club. ...

Non-fiction

  • Humphrey Bogart: Take It and Like It Bloomsbury, 1991, a biography of Humphrey Bogart
  • James Stewart: Leading Man Bloomsbury, 1994, a James Stewart biography
  • Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson Picador, 2004 (winner of the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction)

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Musical Collaborations

Music is a constant thread in Coe's oeuvre, and he tried to find a record label as a performer before he became a published novelist. He had to wait until 2001 to make his first appearance on a record with '9th & 13th' (Tricatel, 2001), a collection of readings of his own writings set to music by jazz pianist/double bass player Danny Manners and indiepop 'cult' artist Louis Philippe. Coe has also collaborated with flautist Theo Travis, and - as a lifelong fan of Canterbury progressive-rock - has recently said: "I'd love to find a pianist to collaborate with - maybe Alex Maguire, who is now playing with the reformed line-up of Hatfield and the North". Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... Hatfield and the North took its name from the roadsigns out of London directing motorists toward the A1 or A1(M) — the old Great North Road — which runs north through Hatfield to Edinburgh; this is one such sign, although as can be seen, the old Hatfield and the North has...


External links

  • Closing the Circle: Jonathan Coe In Interview
  • Online discussion about Jonathan Coe and B.S. Johnson
  • "Letter from England: A Blairite Novel" Review of Coe's The Closed Circle in n+1 magazine.
  • Jonathan Coe at www.contemporarywriters.com
  • A one-hour interview about his writing (France-Culture, Bibliothèque étrangère, Francesca Isidori)
  • Jonathan Coe on Writing
Persondata
NAME Coe, Jonathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION English novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 19 August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, UK
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

  Results from FactBites:
 
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe: Reviews (759 words)
Coe's narrative voice is pleasingly intimate, as though he were inviting his readers into the "closed circle" referenced in the tide, urging them to lean close and then closer.
Coe is a witty writer with a talent for social satire that singes characters without burning away their humanity.
Coe's knack for capturing an epoch is still strong, but, in contrast to the distant decade of the earlier book, his evocation of turn-of-the-millennium Britain seems very much yesterday's news.
3am Literature:  (1077 words)
As Coe documents only too well, the era was that of worsening industrial and social unrest -- Johnson's role being to capture this through his own propaganda films against the Heath government and Christie Malry's own appropriation of the Angry Brigade's tactics in his novel of the same name.
As Coe reveals, Johnson's almost inchoate yet consistent political beliefs resembled something akin to broad sympathy towards an idealised notion of a Labour left intelligentsia, though he later argued that it, as per the Labour Government of Harold Wilson, had lost its way and was a spent force.
Where Coe caps off the justice served is in the structure of the book, which avoids the more pedestrian pitfalls of the biographer that quite often render what should be a lively account into thoroughly dull reading.
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