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Giles Coren (born 1969 in Paddington, London) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Coren is the son of the late British writer and humourist Alan Coren, and the brother of journalist Victoria Coren. He was educated at Westminster School before going on to Keble College, Oxford, where he achieved a first in English.

Career

• He is credited by inventor James Dyson as the co-author of Dyson\'s autobiography, Against The Odds: An Autobiography, published in 1997.ISBN 0-75280-981-4 "...I was flattered when he agreed to collaborate on this book."
• Despite several TV appearances, he is probably best known as the restaurant critic for the British newspaper The Times, winning the title "Food And Drink Writer of the Year" in 2005.
• He also contributes an irregular and irreverent column to The Times, the subject of which ranges from curious events in his personal life to political satire. Under the pseudonym Professor Gideon Garter he wrote The Intellectual\'s Guide to Fashion in The Sunday Times, satirizing the pretensions of modern critical theory and cultural commentary.Giles Coren
• In the autumn of 2005, Coren appeared as a regular correspondent on Gordon Ramsay\'s The F-Word.
• On the 6 June 2006, he presented a programme on the digital channel More4, entitled Tax the Fat, a semi-serious look at the cost of clinical obesity and the cost it presents to the NHS.
• He co-presented the Channel 4 series Animal Farm in March 2007
• Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spent a week on the diet of a wealthy Edwardian couple, for a BBC4 documentary shown in April 2007. Enormous amounts of offal, game, red meats and eggs were consumed from breakfast to late night snacks, in Edwardian Supersize Me.
• In 2007, he appeared in a series of television advertisements advertising Birds Eye frozen foods. Critics, such as Ian Burrell in The Independent, suggested he had journalistically sold out, and ridiculed his decision.

Awards

In 2005, Coren\'s first novel Winkler won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the worst description of sex. The passage for which he was awarded it ended with the sentence fragment "Like Zorro"; this reference has gained a cult status as an internet meme, although he says he is unaware of what the word "meme" means.The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books

References

External links

• Giles Coren Times Online
• Giles Coren (Byliner: Writers)
• BBC article on Coren\'s winning the Bad Sex in Fiction Award
• The Independent newspaper article profile
• Independent article criticising Birds Eye ads

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