GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he cam to the UK. He read English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a first in 1961. From 1963 to 1996 he taught the University of Sussex, where he is now Research Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities. He has published over a dozen novels, three volumes of short stories, and a number of critical books. His plays have been performed throughout Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and into Arabic. In 2001 he published A Life, a memoir/biography of his mother, the translator and poet, Sacha Rabinovitch (London Magazine Editions), and his most recent novels are Goldberg: Variations (Carcanet, 2001) and Only Joking (Zweitausendeins, Germany, 2005).
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'Josipovici is able to relate ordinary human concerns to some of the most important intellectual issues of the twentieth century. There are few writers in England of whom this could be said.' - Times Literary Supplement.