Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes , The Book of Dave , How the Dead Live , which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt , winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, Umbrella , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone , was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.