Jonathan Kemp (writer)

{{Short description|English writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Jonathan Kemp''' (born 1967) is an English writer.<ref name=hays>Matthew Hays, [https://archive.today/20130615223509/http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Sex_and_the_city-13550.aspx "Sex and the city"]. ''Xtra!'', 13 May 2013.</ref> He has published two novels, ''London Triptych'' and ''Ghosting'', as well as one short-story collection, ''Twentysix'', to date.

He won the Authors' Club First Novel Award in 2011 for ''London Triptych''.<ref name=hays /> The book was republished in North America by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013.<ref name=hays />

Originally from Manchester, Kemp teaches creative writing, literature and queer theory at Birkbeck, University of London.<ref name=polari>[http://www.polarimagazine.com/interviews/jonathan-kemp-interview/ "Jonathan Kemp Interview"]. ''Polari'', 29 November 2010.</ref> He is gay.<ref name=hays/>

==Works== *''London Triptych'' (Myriad Editions, 2010, {{ISBN|9780956251534}}) *''Twentysix'' (Myriad, 2011, {{ISBN|9780956792600}}) *''Ghosting'' (Myriad, 2015, {{ISBN|9780956251565}}) *''The Penetrated Male'' (Punctum Books, 2013, {{ISBN|9780615870861}})

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