Jonathan coe biography
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Coe, Jonathan
PERSONAL:
Born August 19, , in Birmingham, England; son of Roger Frank (a physicist) and Janet Mary (a teacher) Coe; married Janine Maria McKeown (a psychologist), January 28, ; children: Matilda, Madeline. Education: Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A., ; University of Warwick, M.A., , Ph.D.,
ADDRESSES:
Home—London, England. Agent—Peake Associates, 14 Grafton Crescent, London NW1 8SL, England.
CAREER:
Writer. University of Warwick, Coventry, England, tutor in English poetry, ; legal proofreader, , and freelance writer and journalist, , all in London, England.
AWARDS, HONORS:
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Mail on Sunday, ; Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger , for What a Carve Up!; Writer's Guild Best Fiction Award ; Prix Médicis Etranger, , for The House of Sleep; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, , for The Rotters' Club; Premio Arzobispo San Clemente, ; Samuel Johnson Prize, , for Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson; International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, , for The Closed Circle.
WRITINGS:
NOVELS
The Accidental Woman, Duckworth (London, England),
A Touch of Love, Duckworth (London, England),
The Dwarves of Death, Fourth Estate (London, England),
What a Carve Up!, Viking (London, England), , published as Th
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Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born on 19 August in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His first surviving story, a detective thriller called The Castle of Mystery, was written at the age of eight. The first few pages of this story appear in his novel What a Carve Up!.
He continued writing fiction throughout his schooldays, his three years at Trinity College, Cambridge and his postgraduate years at Warwick University where he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on Henry Fielding&#;s Tom Jones. While working on this thesis he also completed The Accidental Woman, the first of his novels to be published.
In the late s he moved to London to pursue his literary and musical enthusiasms, writing songs for his short-lived band The Peer Group and a feminist cabaret group called Wanda and the Willy Warmers. The Accidental Woman was published in April, , and was followed by A Touch of Love () and The Dwarves of Death (), but it was not until the publication of his fourth novel, What a Carve Up! that he began to reach a wider audience. It became his first international success, with translations in sixteen languages.
It was followed by The House of Sleep (), and then The Rotters&#; Club () and its sequel The Closed Circ