JACK URWIN
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Jack Urwin is a British-Canadian author whose work has covered a range of issues such as politics, music, mental health and gender. He’s written for publications including the Guardian, McSweeney’s, VICE and the Literary Review of Canada.
His first book, MAN UP: Surviving Modern Masculinity, was published in 2016 and received praise from a diverse array of publications including the Telegraph, who described it as ‘accessible, funny and interesting’ and the Daily Express, who called it ‘an engaging and moving call to arms’. By contrast, the founding member of a far-right group since designated a terrorist organisation said that Urwin and the book were ‘destroying western culture’.
Jack has appeared on BBC Radio 4, CBC Radio and Sirius XM, and has spoken on the subject of masculinity at the Southbank Centre’s Being a Man Festival, Cheltenham Science Festival, UCL and the University of St Andrews, among many others. He currently lives in Toronto.
MAN UP: Surviving Modern Masculinity
Icon Books, June 2016
Non-fiction, 256 pages
A darkly comical exploration into the toxic effects of masculinity and emotional repression on society. Influenced by, among other things, his own father's premature death, MAN UP expands on the themes of Jack's essay 'A Stiff Upper Lip Is Killing British Men', one of VICE's most shared articles globally in 2014.