Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is a writer I recommend with real affection, because few authors play with the act of reading itself as gleefully as he does. The Eyre Affair, with a detective who literally enters works of literature, signalled an imagination unbound by genre, and the Thursday Next books only widened that playground. Add the Nursery Crime, Shades of Grey and Dragonslayer series and you get a novelist who refuses to repeat himself. His Wodehouse Prize win confirms the comic gift, and his background as a cinematographer shows in his visual, cleverly staged prose. He writes books for people who love books, and it shows.

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Name (English)

Jasper Fforde

Name (Japanese)

ジャスパー・フォード

Reading

じゃすぱー・ふぉーど

Born

January 11, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

writer / novelist / science fiction writer / cinematographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
• 2004 Dilys Award
• 2012 Julia-Verlanger Award

• Official sitehttp://www.jasperfforde.com
• Xhttps://x.com/jasperfforde
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper%20Fforde
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713778

Tags

• writer
• novelist
• science fiction writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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