Greg Stekelman
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Greg Stekelman (born February 12, 1975 in London) is a British novelist and writer[citation needed].
Born and raised in north London, Stekelman started themanwhofellasleep.com in 2001[citation needed]. The website is an eclectic mix of his writing, illustrations, animations and features. The website is popular in the UK and has featured in a number of newspapers, from The Guardian to the Sunday Times[citation needed].
In 2005 Time Out London started using his Tube Gossip column as a weekly feature under the heading Overheard Underground[citation needed].
April 2006 saw The Friday Project releasing Stekelman's first novel; A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep, based on writing from his website[citation needed]. The book is illustrated by the author and comes with an introduction from journalist Julie Burchill[citation needed].
Reviews of A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep have been positive, with Time Out London saying "This odd, excellent, fantastical diary offers a curious combination of dreams, London and deadpan humour, all wrapped in up in a quasi-fictional journal with funny illustrations"[citation needed]. Vice Magazine UK called it "...one of the most imaginative and enjoyable diaries published since Brian Eno's A Year with Swollen Appendices" and described Stekelman as a "Woody Allen for the Ipod generation"[citation needed]. Zoo Magazine described it as a "surreal, morbidly entertaining novel written as a diary"[citation needed].
Stekelman is the son of Argentine artist Juan Carlos Stekelman and the nephew of Tango cheoreographer Ana Maria Stekelman[citation needed].
