Simon Kuper
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About
Sports writer who made use of the anthropological perspective to examine sports behavior in Ajax, The Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War and Soccer Against the Enemy.
Before Fame
He moved to Netherlands from Uganda and attended Oxford and Harvard universities.
Trivia
He won the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for his book Football Against the Enemy.
Family Life
His father, Adam Kuper, worked as an anthropology lecturer at Leiden University.
Associated With
Sweedish poet Johannes Anyuru's father was also born in Uganda.
