Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe | |
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Coe at Hatchards London in 2022 | |
| Born | 19 August 1961 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | 1987–present |
| Genre | Satire |
| Notable works | What a Carve Up! (1994); The House of Sleep (1997); The Rotters' Club (2001); Middle England (2019) |
| Notable awards | John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Samuel Johnson Prize; Prix Médicis; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Costa Book Award |
Jonathan Coe FRSL (/koʊ/; born 19 August 1961) is 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! (1994) 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 that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.