Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper is an English author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective." [A quote from the short bio next to his article ‘De Teloorgang’ in Vrij Nederland, nr. 23, June 7th, 2008. Page 24.]

Kuper was born in Uganda of South African parents in 1969, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was a lecturer in anthropology at Leiden University. He has also lived in Stanford, California, and London. He studied History and German at Oxford University.

He won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1994 with his book Football Against the Enemy, which was later released in the United States as Soccer Against the Enemy. He has also written for the Observer and Guardian, and is currently a sports columnist for the Financial Times. He lives in France. In 2003 he published his book 'Ajax, the Dutch, The war' Football in Europe during the second world war. Orion books ltd.

Kuper also writes in Dutch, and his work frequently appeared in amongst others the Dutch newspaper De Pers, the literary football magazine Hard Gras, and opinion magazine Vrij Nederland.

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External links

* [http://crossroads.journalismcentre.com/2006/review-the-transformation-of-the-netherlands-a-lecture-by-simon-kuper/ Simon Kuper lecture review: The Transformation of the Netherlands] by Danya Chaikel. Lecture given in Maastricht, the Netherlands on 17 October 2006.
* [http://epltalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=199169 Interview with Simon Kuper on the EPL Talk Podcast]


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