Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coeis an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources which some feel was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s. One claim to fame that Coe...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 August 1961
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.
From our perspective, the session was a success.
So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers.
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.
The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither here nor there, as far as I'm concerned.