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Jonathan Coe
Birth at
19 August 1961
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Jonathan Coe was born in 1961 in the ancient central English city of Birmingham, Warwickshire. He became known to the general reader after the release of his novel “What a Cheat!”, in 1994 – it was a satirical pamphlet on “The Iron Lady” Thatcher and the entire English aristocracy. He begins a pen trial at the age of 11, when he studies in Cambridge, moving into the world of fictional life from the realities that existed first in King Edward’s school classes, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Jonathan Coe was born in 1961 in the ancient central English city of Birmingham, Warwickshire. He became known to the general reader after the release of his novel “What a Cheat!”, in 1994 – it was a satirical pamphlet on “The Iron Lady” Thatcher and the entire English aristocracy.
He begins a pen trial at the age of 11, when he studies in Cambridge, moving into the world of fictional life from the realities that existed first in King Edward’s school classes, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. After university, Jonathan defends his doctorate in English literature and teaches the poetry of "foggy Albion" at the Department of the University of Warwick. In 2006, when he became a world celebrity, he was entrusted to give an Honorary Lecture at the University of Birmigham.
In his life there were many versatile activities: proofreader, professional musician, composer of music for cabaret, freelance journalist. But he became famous for writing “A Random Woman” (1987), “Easy Love” (1989), “Dwarfs of Death” (1990), which were positively appreciated by literature lovers. And the world fame of the accomplished writer brought him, as already mentioned, a pamphlet on the aristocratic society of England at the time of Margaret Thatcher “What a fraud!”.
Already in 1997, a new bestseller by Jonathan Coe “House of Sleep” was born, awarded in England the Writers’ Guild Prize, as well as the French Medici Prize. He was followed by novels: “Rotten Company” (2001), in the Russian version as “The Rakali Club”, telling about the 70s in the UK, and its sequel “The Closed Circle” (2004).
In total, from the pen of Jonathan Coe to date, 8 novels and 2 biographical books have been published that cover the lives of film actors Humphrey Bogart (1991) and James Stewart (1994).
Today, Coe lives in the UK capital and continues to create his unrivalled bestsellers.