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Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe
English Novelist
Born: Aug 19, 1961
Books Happy Me Time Writing You
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. Jonathan Coe
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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. Jonathan Coe
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I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. Jonathan Coe
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. Jonathan Coe
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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. Jonathan Coe
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. Jonathan Coe
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It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. Jonathan Coe
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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? Jonathan Coe
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! Jonathan Coe
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. Jonathan Coe
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As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. Jonathan Coe
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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. Jonathan Coe
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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. Jonathan Coe
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Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. Jonathan Coe
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