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Simon Kuper (Simon Gad Kuper) was born on 15 October, 1969 in Kampala, Uganda, is a British author. Discover Simon Kuper's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Simon Gad Kuper
Occupation Journalist
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 15 October 1969
Birthday 15 October
Birthplace Kampala, Uganda
Nationality United Kingdom

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Simon Kuper is a British, and naturalized French, author and journalist, best known for his work at the Financial Times and as a football writer.

1963

He is named for his paternal grandfather, Simon Meyer Kuper, who was a South African Supreme Court judge assassinated in 1963.

He has lived in Jamaica, Sweden, Palo Alto, California, Berlin and London.

He studied History and German at Oxford University, and attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar.

1994

After studies at Oxford, Harvard University and the Technische Universität Berlin, Kuper started his career in journalism at the FT in 1994, where he today writes about a wide range of topics, such as politics, society, culture, sports and urban planning.

He publishes a well-read column in the weekend edition FT Magazine and has twice been awarded the British Society of Magazine Editors' prize for Columnist of the Year.

Kuper has also written for outlets such as The Guardian and The Times.

Kuper’s unique approach to sports writing, particularly on football, has earned him several prestigious accolades, including the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

He writes about sports "from an anthropological perspective."

Time Magazine has called him “one of the world’s leading writers on soccer” and The Economic Times labeled him “one of the world's most famous football writers.”

He is the author of several books, among them the William Hill awarded Football Against the Enemy and the Sunday Times Bestseller about UK politics, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK.

Born in Uganda to South African parents, Kuper spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands and lives in Paris.

Kuper was born in Uganda of South African-born parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was a professor in anthropology at Leiden University.

Kuper joined the Financial Times in 1994.

Since joining the publication in 1994, he has held various roles, writing on a wide range of topics, from sports and popular culture to politics.

He started his FT career as a reporter.

His assignments have often taken him beyond his base in Paris, providing coverage and analysis on global events from different parts of the world.

His sportswriting is appreciated for its exploration of sports beyond mere scores and statistics, looking at the societal, political and cultural impact of sports globally.

Kuper discusses the culture that surrounds football — such as the Old Firm rivalry — as well as the on-field play.

He has written on cricket occasionally, with articles on cricket in the Netherlands and cricket in apartheid South Africa.

He has also contributed for many years to the FT's Weekend Magazine, as a Life & Arts columnist, often with long-form essays and interviews spanning themes such as current affairs, travel, history and politics.

Kuper has written several books, starting with the William Hill awarded Football Against the Enemy (1994), which was later released in the United States as Soccer Against the Enemy.

The Times wrote of the book: "If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it."

1998

He wrote the daily currencies column and worked in other departments, before leaving the FT in 1998.

2002

He returned in 2002 as a sports columnist and has worked there ever since.

Nowadays he writes a general column for the Weekend FT on all manner of topics from politics to books, and on cities including London, Paris, Johannesburg and Miami.

Kuper has also written for The Times and The Observer, ESPN, and The Spectator.

Kuper also writes in Dutch, and his work frequently appeared in publications including the Dutch newspapers NRC Handelsblad and Het Financieele Dagblad, the literary football magazine Hard Gras, and the online newspaper De Correspondent.

Kuper is considered one of the most influential voices at the Financial Times.

2003

In 2003 he published his book Ajax, The Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War.

2009

He co-authored the 2009 book Soccernomics with Stefan Szymanski.

2010

The authors subsequently put forward a formula allowing Kuper to predict that Serbia and Brazil would play the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.

2011

His book The Football Men, which was published in 2011, offered a collection of articles about the world of football over a span of 13 years, along with new pieces written specifically for this book.

The Independent wrote that "Simon Kuper is a refreshing antidote to the current media obsession with 'getting the nannies [nanny goats = quotes]', however banal, from players. He doesn't mince his words: talking of past greats, he dismisses Bobby Charlton as "a dullard", Michel Platini "a weak character" and Pele "a talking puppet."

Kuper's book Barça: The Rise and Fall of the Club that Built Modern Football appeared in 2021.

It won the Sunday Times award for Football Book of the Year 2022.

Also in 2021, Kuper released The Happy Traitor, an account of the life and motivations of George Blake, a British spy for the Soviet Union.

The narrative, praised for its detailed exploration and understanding of Blake's complex character, sheds light on Blake's ideological shifts and personal struggles with identity and marks a significant addition to Kuper's body of work.

In 2022 he published Chums - How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, about the connections that enabled a university network to dominate Westminster.

2016

Kuper has twice been awarded the British Society of Magazine Editors' prize for Columnist of the Year, in 2016 and 2020.