Will Self

William Woodard Self (born 26

September 1961) is an English author,
Will Self
journalist, political commentator and
television personality.[3][4][5] He has
written eleven novels, five collections of
shorter fiction, three novellas, and five
collections of non-fiction writing.

His 2002 novel Dorian, an Imitation was

longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and
his 2012 novel Umbrella was shortlisted.[6]
His fiction is known for being satirical,
grotesque, and fantastical, and is
predominantly set within his home city of
Self in 2013
London. His writing often explores mental
illness, drug abuse and psychiatry. Born William Woodard Self
26 September 1961[1]
Self is a regular contributor to publications Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
including The Guardian, Harper's, The Occupation Novelist, journalist
New York Times and the London Review of
Education University College School, Hampstead
Books. He currently writes a column for the
Christ's College, Finchley
New Statesman, and over the years he has
been a columnist for the Observer, The Alma mater Exeter College, Oxford
Times, and the Evening Standard. His (Bachelor of Arts)
columns for Building Design on the built Period 1991–present
environment, and for the Independent Genre Literature
Magazine on the psychology of place
Notable The Book of Dave
brought him to prominence as a thinker works Umbrella
concerned with the politics of urbanism.
Notable Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Self is a regular contributor on British awards 1991
television, initially as a guest on comic Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
panel shows such as Have I Got News for 1998
You. In 2002, Self replaced Mark Lamarr Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
on the anarchic BBC comedy panel show 2008
Shooting Stars [7][8] for two series, but was Spouse Kate Chancellor
himself replaced by comedian Jack Dee (m. 1989; div. 1997)
when the programme returned in 2008.[8] Deborah Orr
He has since appeared on current affairs (m. 1997; div. 2018)[2]
programmes such as Newsnight and Relatives Sir Henry Self (grandfather)
Question Time. Self is contributor to the
Peter Self (father)
BBC Radio 4 programme A Point of
Jonathan Self (brother)
View,[9] to which he contributes radio
essays delivered in his familiar "lugubrious Website
www.will-self.com (http://www.will-self.com/)
tones".[10] In 2013, Self was in talks to become the inaugural BBC Radio 4 Writer-in-Residence,[10] but
later backed out of the talks.[11]

Contents
Early life
Career
Literary style
Political views
Personal life
Legacy
Awards
Works
Novels
Short story collections
Non-fiction
Television
References
External links

Early life
Self was born at Charing Cross Hospital in London[12] and brought up in north London, between the
suburbs of East Finchley and Hampstead Garden Suburb.[13] His parents were Peter John Otter Self,
Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, and Elaine Rosenbloom, from
Queens, New York, who worked as a publisher's assistant.[14][15][16] His paternal grandfather was Sir Albert
Henry Self. As a child, Self spent a year living in Ithaca in upstate New York.[13]

Self's parents separated when he was nine, and divorced when he was 18.[17] Despite the intellectual
encouragement given by his parents, he was an emotionally confused and self-destructive child, harming
himself with cigarette ends and knives before beginning to experiment with drugs.[18]

Self was a voracious reader from a young age. When he was ten, he developed an interest in works of
science fiction such as Frank Herbert's Dune and those of J. G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick.[19][20] Into his
teenage years, Self claimed to have been "overawed by the canon", stifling his ability to express himself.
Nevertheless, Self's dabbling with drugs grew in step with his prolific reading. Self started smoking
cannabis at the age of 12, graduating through amphetamines, cocaine, and LSD to heroin, which he started
injecting at 18.[21] Self struggled with mental health issues during this period, and aged 20 became a
hospital outpatient.[22]

Self attended University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead.[23] He later
attended Christ's College, Finchley, from where he went to Exeter College at the University of Oxford,
reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating with a third class degree.[21] At Oxford he became
editor of and frequent contributor to an underground left-wing student newspaper called Red Herring/Oxford
Strumpet, copies of which are archived in the Bodleian Library.
Career
After graduating from Oxford, Self worked for the Greater London
Council, including a period as a road sweeper, while living in
Brixton.[24] He pursued a career as a cartoonist for the New
Statesman and other publications and as a stand-up comedian.[24] He
moved to Gloucester Road around 1985. In 1986 he entered a
treatment centre in Weston-super-Mare, where he claimed that his
heroin addiction was cured.[21] In 1989, "through a series of
accidents", he "blagged" his way into running a small publishing
company.[25][26]

The publication of his short story collection The Quantity Theory of

Self at a 2002 book signing
Insanity brought him to public attention in 1991. Self was hailed as
an original new talent by Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing, Beryl
Bainbridge, A. S. Byatt, and Bill Buford.[21] In 1993 he was
nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 "Best Young British Novelists".[27] Conversely, Self's
second book, My Idea of Fun, was "mauled" by the critics.[28]

Self joined the Observer as a columnist in 1995.[1] He gained negative publicity in 1997 when he was sent
to cover the election campaign of John Major and was caught by a rival journalist using heroin on the Prime
Minister's jet, and was fired as a result.[29] At the time, he argued "I'm a hack who gets hired because I do
drugs".[30] He joined the Times as a columnist in 1997.[1] In 1999 he left Times to join the Independent on
Sunday,[1] which he left in 2002 for the Evening Standard.[1]

He has made many appearances on British television, especially as a panellist on Have I Got News for You
and as a regular on Shooting Stars. Since 2008 Self has appeared five times on Question Time. He stopped
appearing in Have I Got News for You, stating the show had become a pseudo-panel show. Between 2003
and 2006 he was a regular contributor to the BBC2 television series Grumpy Old Men.[31]

Since 2009, Self has written two alternating fortnightly columns for the New Statesman. The Madness of
Crowds explores social phenomena and group behaviour, and in Real Meals he reviews high street food
outlets. For a May 2014 article in The Guardian, he wrote: "the literary novel as an art work and a narrative
art form central to our culture is indeed dying before our eyes", explaining in a July 2014 article that his
royalty income had decreased "dramatically" over the previous decade. The July article followed the release
of a study of the earnings of British authors that was commissioned by the Authors' Licensing and
Collecting Society.[32]

Self is a professor of Modern Thought at Brunel University London. He was appointed in 2012 and
continues to serve in this capacity. [33]

Literary style
According to M. Hunter Hayes, Self has given his reason for writing as follows: "I don't write fiction for
people to identify with and I don't write a picture of the world they can recognise. I write to astonish
people."[34] "What excites me is to disturb the reader's fundamental assumptions. I want to make them feel
that certain categories within which they are used to perceiving the world are unstable."[35]

Self was a voracious reader from a young age. When he was ten, he developed an interest in works of
science fiction such as Frank Herbert's Dune and those of J. G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick.[19][20] Self
admires the work of J. G. Ballard, Alasdair Gray, and Martin Amis.[36][37] He previously admired William
Burroughs but went off him.[38][39] He has cited influences such as
Jonathan Swift, Franz Kafka[40], Lewis Carroll,[41] and Joseph
Heller[42] as formative influences on his writing style.[37] Other
influences on his fiction include Hunter S. Thompson.[43] Self
credits Céline's book Journey to the End of the Night with inspiring
him to write fiction.[44]

Zack Busner is a recurring character in Self's fiction, appearing in

the short story collections The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Grey
Area and Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, as well as in the novels Self in 2007
Great Apes, The Book of Dave, Umbrella and Shark. Busner is a
psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practising in London, and is prone to
self-promotion at the expense of his patients. He is often the antagonist of the stories he appears in, although
not always with villainous intent.

Among Self's admirers was the American critic Harold Bloom.[45] Journalist Stuart Maconie has described
him as "that rarity in modern cultural life, a genuine intellectual with a bracing command of words and ideas
who is also droll, likeable and culturally savvy."[46]

Political views
In the 2015 UK general election Self voted Labour in a general election for the first time since 1997. In May
2015, he wrote in The Guardian: "No, I'm no longer a socialist if to be one is to believe that a socialist
utopia is attainable by some collective feat of will – but I remain a socialist, if 'socialism' is to be understood
as an antipathy to vested interests and privileges neither deserved nor earned, and a strong desire for a
genuinely egalitarian society."[47] In March 2017, he wrote in the New Statesman: "Nowadays I think in
terms of compassionate pragmatism: I'll leave socialism to Žižek and the other bloviators."[48]

In July 2015 Self endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[49] He said
during a Channel 4 News interview that Corbyn represents a useful ideological divide within Labour, and
could lead to the formation of a schism in the party.[50]

Self is a republican.[51]

Personal life
Self's mother died in 1988.[25] He was married from 1989 to 1997 to Kate Chancellor. They have two
children, a son Alexis and a daughter Madeleine. They lived together in a terraced house just off the
Portobello Road.[52] In 1997, Self married journalist Deborah Orr, with whom he has sons Ivan and Luther.
In 2017, Orr and Self separated, and Self was living in a rented flat in Stockwell.[2] Orr died on 20 October
2019.

Self has stated that he has abstained from drugs, except for caffeine and nicotine, since 1998.[53] He sent his
children to private schools, owing to his children being bullied at state schools in Lambeth.[54]

He has described himself as a psychogeographer and modern flâneur and has written about walks he has
taken.[55] In December 2006, he walked 26 miles from his home in South London to Heathrow Airport.
Upon arriving at Kennedy Airport he walked 20 miles from there to Manhattan.[53] In August 2013, Self
wrote of his anger following an incident in which he was stopped and questioned by police in Yorkshire
while out walking with his 11-year-old son, on suspicion of being a paedophile. The police were alerted by a
security guard at Bishop Burton College. He had asked the security guard for permission to cross the school
grounds.[56] In September 2018 Self was accused of "mental cruelty" by Orr in relation to their divorce, in a
series of posts on Twitter.[57]

Self has discussed his Jewish heritage and its impact on his identity.[58][59][60] In 2006, Self 'resigned' as a
Jew as a protest against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.[61] In 2018 he stated in an interview with the BBC
that he had rethought his position.[62]

Self is 6 feet 5 inches (196 cm) tall,[63] collects vintage typewriters[64] and smokes a pipe.[65] His brother is
the author and journalist Jonathan Self.[66]

Legacy
In 2016, the British Library acquired the archive of Will Self, the collection is a hybrid archive of paper and
born digital material.[67] The Papers of Will Self are divided into two parts: family papers and personal and
literary papers. The papers can be accessed through the British Library catalogue.[68]

Awards
1991: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Quantity Theory of Insanity
1998: Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for Tough Tough Toys for Tough
Tough Boys
2008: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for The Butt

Works

Novels
Cock and Bull (1992)
My Idea of Fun (1993)
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (illustrated novella) (1996)
Great Apes (1997)
How the Dead Live (2000)
Dorian, an Imitation (2002)
The Book of Dave (2006)
The Butt (2008)
Walking to Hollywood (2010)
Umbrella (2012)
Shark (2014)
Phone (2017)

Short story collections

The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991)
Grey Area (1994)
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998)
 Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (2004)
Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes (2008)
The Undivided Self: Selected Stories (2010)

Non-fiction

Self has also compiled several books of work from his newspaper and magazine columns which mix
interviews with counter-culture figures, restaurant reviews and literary criticism.

Junk Mail (1996)

Perfidious Man (2000) photography by David M. Gamble
Sore Sites (2000)
Feeding Frenzy (2001)
Psychogeography (2007)
Psycho Too (2009)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (2012)
Will (2019)

Television
The Minor Character – Self's short story was turned into a short film on Sky Arts which starred
David Tennant as "Will".

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External links
Official website (http://will-self.com/)
Will Self (https://www.discogs.com/artist/14399) discography at Discogs
Will Self (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107102/) on IMDb
Will Self (https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/will-self) at British Council: Literature
Will Self (http://books.guardian.co.uk/whyiwrite/story/0,,2075745,00.html) article on why he
writes in The Guardian
"The Principle" (http://www.nerve.com/fiction/self/theprinciple), short fiction by Will Self
Will Self (http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/will_self) profile from the New Statesman
Will Self (http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-164,00.html) author page at
Guardian Books
 Will Self (https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/features/2004/01/willself.shtml) short interview at the
BBC
Will Self (https://web.archive.org/web/20071103092926/http://archive.salon.com/audio/col/mill/
2000/10/19/miller/) audio interview at Salon
'The Lives of Typewriters and Large Data-sets: The Will Self Archive (https://blogs.bl.uk/englis
h-and-drama/2018/03/the-lives-of-typewriters-and-large-data-sets-cataloguing-the-will-self-arc
hive.html)' British Library English and Drama Blog

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