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Gabriel Josipovici


(Gabriel David Josipovici)
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is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright. He was born in Nice, France, of Sephardic, Egyptian-Jewish parents, who lived out the war years in a village in the French Alps. After studying for six years in Egypt at Victoria College, Cairo from 1950-56, on emigrating with his mother to England in that year, he finished his high school education at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire. He obtained his B.A. from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1961. He won the Somerset Maugham Prize for his fiction in 1975. He taught at the University of Sussex at Brighton from 1963 until 1998, where he is Research Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities.
 
 
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Novels
   The Inventory (1968)
   Words (1971)
   The Present (1975)
   Migrations (1977)
   The Echo Chamber (1980)
   The Air We Breathe (1981)
   Conversations in Another Room (1984)
   Contre-jour (1986)
   The Big Glass (1991)
   In a Hotel Garden (1993)
   Moo Pak (1994)
   Now (1998)
   Goldberg (2002)
   Only Joking (2010)
   Infinity (2012)
   Hotel Andromeda (2014)
   The Cemetery in Barnes (2018)
   Partita and A Winter in Zurau (2024)
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Collections
   Penguin Modern Stories 12 (1972) (with others)
   Mobius the Stripper (1974)
   Four Stories (1977)
   The Lessons of Modernism (1977)
   In the Fertile Land (1987)
   Steps (1990)
   Heart's Wings (2010)
   100 Days (poems) (2021)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Everything Passes (2006)
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Gabriel Josipovici recommends
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Yes (1991)
Thomas Bernhard
"Thomas Bernhard was one of the few major writers of the second half of this century."

Awards
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book nominee (2018) : The Cemetery in Barnes




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