MIDDLE ENGLAND

Jonathan Coe
MIDDLE ENGLAND

The English writer Jonathan Coe has a reputation of catching the British Zeitgeist with his comic literary novels: Coe wrote The Rotter’s Club about the 70ties that prepared the political ground for Thatcherism; What a Carve Up! about the Thatcher years; The closed Circle in the run-up of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now, Jonathan Coe comes to Vienna to present the German translation of his most recent book Middle England, which The Guardian called „a bittersweet Brexit novel“. It is also about an underlying theme of Coe’s  recent trilogy: England and Englishness. „What is interesting about Coe is not so much his flight from Englishness as his ambivalent embrace of it“, writes The Financial Times. Coe won the Costa fiction Prize and the European Book Prize 2019 for his novel. He is probably the last British author to receive it as you need to be EU citizen to be nominated.

Jonathan Coe will present the German version of his book MIDDLE ENGLAND in conversation with Tessa Szyszkowitz.

Jonathan Coe, English novelist and  writer
Tessa Szyszkowitz, UK correspondent for PROFIL, Falter, Cicero and author of Echte Engländer. Britain and Brexit (in German, Picus Verlag, September 2018) is also a Senior Associate Fellow oft he Royal united Services Institute in London.

Middle England, Roman, aus dem Englischen von Cathrine Hornung und Dieter Fuchs. Folio-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85256-801-0 https://www.folioverlag.com/Middle-England/9783852568010