Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper (born 15 October 1969 in Kampala ) is a British author and sports journalist. The focus of his work lies in football, but also about other sports he has published.

Biography

Kuper is the son of South African anthropologist Adam Kuper, with which he drew as a child in the Netherlands. He grew up there, in essence, interrupted by stays abroad due to the teaching and research activities of his father in Germany, the United States, South Africa and the UK. He studied German and history at Oxford University and later Harvard University. Subsequently, he worked primarily as a journalist, where he initially among other things, the financial sector wrote in the Financial Times.

In 1994 Kupers debut Football against the enemy, which earned him several awards. He subsequently wrote several books in which he described the cultural environment around football. He also worked as a columnist for The Observer, The Guardian and the Financial Times in the UK and De Pers and Vrij Nederland in the Netherlands. The Dutch football magazine Hard Gras, it controls regular contributor to, also published features in different language journals like 11 friends or Offside.

Works (selection)

• Football against the enemy, 1994
• Stefan Szymanski: Soccernomics, ISBN 978-0007457847, 2009