Jon Day
Jon Day (born 1984 ) is a British literary critic and writer.
Life
Jon Day studied literature and philosophy at St John's College (Oxford) and received his doctorate there. He has been teaching English as a lecturer at King's College London since 2014 .
Day writes essays and reviews that have appeared in the London Review of Books , n + 1 , New York Review of Books , The Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian . His book Cyclogeography is a philosophical attempt at his experience as a bicycle courier in London. His second book is about the racing pigeon and coming home.
Day was a juror for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 and the Wellcome Book Prize in 2019.
Works (selection)
- Cyclogeography: journeys of a London bicycle courier . London: Notting Hill Editions, 2016
- Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return . John Murray, 2019
- (Ed.): A twitch upon the thread: writers on fishing . London: Notting Hill Editions, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Jon Day in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Jon Day , at King's College London
- Cal Flyn: The wonderful world of pigeon fancying. A new memoir is endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite , review, in: Prospect , June 12, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kate Kellaway : Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier review - life, the universe and everything on two wheels , review, The Guardian, May 25, 2015
- ↑ 2016 Judges announced , at: thebookerprizes, December 14, 2015. There is also a photo of the jury with Day.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Day, Jon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |