Jonathan Coe

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Jonathan Coe (born August 19, 1961 in Birmingham ) is an English writer.

Life

Coe completed his school years at King Edward's School in his hometown and then studied at Trinity College , Cambridge . He currently (2010) teaches at the University of Warwick .

His novels, which are often humorous and satirical, are primarily characterized by dealing with social issues. His novel Alone with Shirley, for example, is considered a biting satire on the conservative social and economic policy of the Margaret Thatcher era .

His autobiographical novel First Rites tells the story of two young people from different social classes in the 1970s. His novel, Middle England , translated into German in 2020 , is for the third time about the members of a middle-class family from Birmingham who were the focus of the plot in First Rites and class reunions , as well as their relatives and friends and how they did the years before and around experience the referendum on Brexit (2010 to 2018).

Works (selection)

Fiction
  • Alone with Shirley. Roman ("What a Carve Up!"). Translated from the English by Dirk van Gunsteren. Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-22464-4 .
  • First rites. Roman ("The Rotter's Club"). Translated from the English by Sky Nonhoff. Piper, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-492-04370-4 .
  • A touch of love. Roman ("A touch of love"). Translated from the English by Anette Grube. Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-22433-4 .
  • The house of sleep. Roman ("The House of Sleep"). Translated from the English by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-24682-8 .
  • Class reunion. Roman ("The Closed Circle"). Translated from the English by Henning Ahrens. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-04749-4 .
  • With love from Brussels ("Expo 58"). Translated from the English by Walter Ahlers. DVA, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04614-7 .
  • The rain before it falls. Roman ("The Rain Before it Falls"). Translated from the English by Andreas Gressmann. DVA, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04367-2 .
  • Replay. Roman ("The dwarves of death"). Translated from the English by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-492-23139-X .
  • The monstrous loneliness of Maxwell Sim. Novel ("The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim"). Translated from the English by Walter Ahlers. DVA, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-421-04484-6 .
  • Number 11 . Translated from the English by Karin Fleischanderl. Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2017, ISBN 978-3-85256-726-6 .
  • Middle England. Roman , (Original edition: Viking, 2018). Translated from the English by Cathrine Hornung and Dieter Fuchs. Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-3-85256-801-0 .
Short stories
  • Loggerheads and Other Stories . Penguin, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-241-96902-1 . [1]
  • "Canadians Can't Flirt" in: Tales From A Master's Notebook: stories Henry James never wrote . Edited by Philip Horne. Vintage, London, ISBN 978-1-784-87147-5 .
Non-fiction

Awards

Trivia

The Rotter's Club (First Rites) contains one of the longest sentences in English-language literature. It contains 13,955 words.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coe, Jonathan .: Middle England , ISBN 9780241309469 , OCLC 1065525001 .
  2. ↑ Alex Preston: Middle England by Jonathan Coe review - Brexit comedy (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , November 25, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018. 
  3. ↑ Rebecca Jones: Longest Sentence. In: Today. BBC, October 3, 2014, accessed March 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Coe, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham