Editing Jonathan Coe (section)

{{short description|English novelist}}
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| name        = Jonathan Coe
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|list=[[FRSL]]}}
| image       = Jonathan Coe 20221130.jpg
| caption     = Coe at [[Hatchards]] London in 2022
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| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1961|8|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bromsgrove]], [[Worcestershire]], England
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| occupation  = Novelist
| period      = 1987–present
| genre       = [[Satire]]
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| notableworks= ''[[What a Carve Up! (novel)|What a Carve Up!]]'' (1994); ''The House of Sleep'' (1997); ''[[The Rotters' Club (novel)|The Rotters' Club]]'' (2001); ''[[Middle England (novel)|Middle England]]'' (2019)
| awards      = [[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]]; [[Samuel Johnson Prize]]; [[Prix Médicis]]; [[Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize]]; [[Costa Book Award]] 
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'''Jonathan Coe''' {{post-nominals|list=[[FRSL]]}} ({{IPAc-en|k|oʊ}}; 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]].<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.2478/ewcp-2022-0008 | title="Brexit from the Campus": Jonathan Coe's ''Middle England'' | date=2022 | last1=Mengel | first1=Ewald | journal=East-West Cultural Passage | volume=22 | pages=154–174 | doi-access=free }}</ref>  For example, ''[[What a Carve Up! (novel)|What a Carve Up!]]'' (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror [[What a Carve Up! (film)|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 Party (UK)|Conservative]] governments of the 1980s.