Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.
Biografie
Will Self, geb. 1961 in London, studierte in Oxford, gründete eine Punkband, arbeitete als Journalist und Kartoonist, 1991 veröffentlichte er sein erstes Buch. "Die Quantitätstheorie des Irrsinns", wurde für den John Llewellyn Rhys Prize nominiert, erhielt 1992 den Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, kam 1993 auf die Granta-Liste der 20 besten jungen Autoren Großbritanniens.
