The Writers of Wales Database

REES, JASPER

Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Intelligent Life. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the biographer of Arsène Wenger, the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.

Selected Publications
I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2008)
Bred of Heaven (Profile books, 2011)
 

Click here to view an article written by Jasper Rees for the Guardian on 'My quest to be more Welsh'.