Will Self is the author of six short-story collections, a book of novellas, eight novels, and six collections of journalism. His short story collection Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys won the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction in 1998, How the Dead Live was shortlisted for the Whitebread Novel of the Year 2002, and The Butt won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008. He lives in London.