- Jay Rayner
Jay Rayner is a British
journalist ,writer and broadcaster born in 1966.Rayner is the son of the journalist
Claire Rayner . [ [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,905443,00.html Tales my mother never told me | Review | The Observer ] ] He joinedThe Observer newspaper after graduating fromLeeds University in1988 where he was editor of the student newspaper. He serves as the Observer's restaurant critic. He has written for a wide range of British newspapers and magazines such as GQ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, theNew Statesman andGranta . In 1992 he was named Young Journalist of the Year in theBritish Press Awards .His first novel
The Marble Kiss published in 1994 was shortlisted for theAuthors' Club of Great Britain First Novel Award , and his secondDay of Atonement published in 1998 for theJewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction . His first work of non-fictionStardust Falling was published in 2002 and was followed by his third novelThe Apologist , published in the US as Eating Crow, in 2004.In 1997 he won a Sony Radio Award for Papertalk,
BBC Radio Five Live 's magazine programme about the newspaper business, which he presented.He regularly appears on Masterchef as one of the food critics, and is one of the panel of critics who make up the titular "enemy" on the daytime cookery show "Eating with the Enemy".
Books
Fiction
* "
Day of Atonement " (1998), ISBN 0-552-99783-8
* "The Apologist " (2004), ISBN 1-55278-416-9
* "The Oyster House Seige " (2007), ISBN 1-84354-566-7Non-Fiction
* "
The Marble Kiss " (1994), ISBN 0-333-62134-4
* "The Man Who Ate The World " (2008), ISBN 0-80508-669-2Reviews
* [http://www.lettersonpages.com/2008/07/the-man-who-ate-the-world-by-jay-rayner/ Review of The Man Who Ate The World at Letters On Pages]
References
External links
* [http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/raynerj/a-pre.html Jay's agency bio]
* [http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/a_bite_with_the_man_who_ate_the_world.htm Gourmet Traveller interview "A Bite With the Man Who Ate The World"]
* [http://www.lettersonpages.com/2008/07/author-interview-jay-rayner/ The Man Who Ate The World interview at Letters On Pages]
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