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Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian. He is the author of several novels and works of non-fiction, including studies of young British artists in the 1990s,[1][2] scholarship on Victorian and Edwardian design, and the British Museum’s 2019 catalogue of artists’ postcards.[3] In 2018, he won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.[4] Cooper's work has been covered by the The New York Review of Books,[1] The Times Literary Supplement,[5] The British Film Institute,[6] Bookforum,[7] Literary Hub,[8] and others.[9][10] In The New Yorker, National Book Award-winning writer Sigrid Nunez said of Cooper's book, Brian, "I can think of no finer exploration of what can happen when a person is fully open and attentive to art, and how a shared passion for art can connect people to one another."[11]

Cooper was born in Dorset and lives in Somerset.[12] He worked for Sotheby's and as Mohamed Al-Fayed's private art consultant before opening his own gallery in Bloomsbury. He appeared in the first twenty-four episodes of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and was co-presenter of Radio 4’s The Week’s Antiques.[13] He has written for The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.[14] He is a collector of historic postcard work by Dieter Roth, Richard Hamilton, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg and many others.[13]

Bibliography

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Fiction

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  • Ruth (1986)
  • Us (1990)
  • The folded lie (1998)
  • Kath Trevelyan (2007)
  • Ash before Oak (2019)
  • Bolt from the Blue (2021)
  • Brian (2023)

Non-fiction

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  • Victorian and Edwardian Decor: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau
  • The World Exists to Be Put on a Postcard: Artists' postcards from 1960 to now
  • Growing Up: The Young British Artists at 50

References

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  1. ^ a b Wills, Clair (2023-11-23). "The Collector". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 70, no. 18. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  2. ^ "Young British Artists Movement Overview". The Art Story. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  3. ^ "The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard". The British Museum. Archived from the original on 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  4. ^ "The Novel Prize". Fitzcarraldo Editions. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  5. ^ "The rich inner life of an unremarkable film buff". TLS. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  6. ^ "The rituals of a life watching films: Jeremy Cooper on his novel Brian". BFI. 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  7. ^ "Viewer Indiscretion". Bookforum. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  8. ^ Cooper, Jeremy (2023-10-26). "Fact, Fiction, and Film: Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  9. ^ Baker, Phil (2019-05-04). "Fiction review: How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee; Dublin Palms by Hugo Hamilton; Ash Before Oak by Jeremy Cooper". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  10. ^ "Ash Before Oak review: Diary with nature, but without a name". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  11. ^ Yorker, The New (2025-05-07). "Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  12. ^ Cummins, Anthony (2024-06-22). "Jeremy Cooper: 'My agent strongly advised me against writing fiction'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  13. ^ a b "Jeremy Cooper". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  14. ^ Cooper, Jeremy (2007). Kath Trevelyan. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-938-6.
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