Gabriel David Josipovici FBA FRSL (/ˌdʒɒsɪpoʊˈviːtʃi/ JOSS-i-po-VEE-chee; born 8 October 1940) is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright.
He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1961 with a First Class degree, and in 1963 he joined the School of European Studies at the newly-formed University of Sussex.
He gave the Northcliffe Lectures at the University of London in 1981-2 and was Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford in 1996-7.
He has published nineteen novels, three volumes of stories and a number of critical books, as well as A Life, a memoir of his mother, the poet and translator Sacha Rabinovitch.
His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in France and Germany, and his work has been translated into many languages, including French (where his novel Infinity, translated by Bernard Hoepffner, won the Prix Laure Bataillon in 2016) and Arabic.