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My Take
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.
Overview
Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. He is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has also published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, two in the Shades of Grey series and four in The Last Dragonslayer series.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Ox
- Origin
- London, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- writer / novelist / science fiction writer / cinematographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2004 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
- 2004 Dilys Award
- 2012 Julia-Verlanger Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.