Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici is the author of novels, short stories, plays and literary criticsm. He was educated in Egypt and the United Kingdom, and studied English in Oxford. He teached English and comparative literature and was professor of English at the University of Sussex between 1963 and 1998, leaving in order to become a fulltime writer. Among his works are The World and the Book (1971),  The Book of God (1988), Touch (1996), A Life (2001), the short story collection Heart’s Wings (2010), the analytical What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010), Infinity (2012), The Cemetery in Barnes (2016) and A Hundres Days (2021) – his response to the first COVID-19 lockdown. Josipovici also regularly contributes to the Times Literary Supplement.

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