Jason Webster (author)
| Jason Webster | |
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| Born |
July 26, 1970 San Francisco |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Crime, Travel, History |
| Subject | Spain |
| Spouse | Salud Botella |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
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Jason Webster is an Anglo-American crime novelist, travel writer and critic, the main focus of whose work is devoted to Spain. He was born in California in 1970. He has spent most of his adult life in Spain, having settled in Valencia with his Spanish wife, actress and dancer Salud Botella.
Webster was educated in England, Egypt and Italy. In 1993 he graduated from Oxford University (St John's College) with a degree in Arabic and Islamic History.
Webster is the author of nine books on Spain, ranging from travel to history and detective fiction. He has appeared in several television documentaries and his works have been translated into a dozen languages.
Apart from his books, Webster also writes for the British newspapers The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times and The Daily Mail and reviews occasionally for the New Statesman and Sunday Telegraph.
He has appeared in several British TV documentaries, including An Islamic History of Europe, presented by Rageh Omaar on BBC television and the critically acclaimed Andalusia: The Legacy of the Moors for Five.
In March 2014 he presented 'Flashmob Flamenco" a documentary for BBC Radio 4 on the response within the Flamenco community to the economic crisis in Spain.
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