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Jason Cowley is a journalist, cultural critic and editor. His interests include literature, politics, foreign affairs, music and sport. He is editor of Granta magazine and a writer on the Observer. In September 2008, he will become editor of the New Statesman.
He is a former editor of the award-winning Observer Sport Monthly magazine, literary editor of the New Statesman and staff writer on the Times. He was a judge of the Whitbread Book of the Year awards in 1995, the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997, The London Writers' Awards in 2001, the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2001 and 2002, and the 2007 Laureus World Sports Awards. His novel, Unknown Pleasures, was published by Faber and Faber in 2000.
His second book, a work of narrative non-fiction called The Last Game: Love, Death, Football and the End of the Eighties, will be published by Simon & Schuster in spring 2009.
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