Author

Jesse Fink

Jesse Fink is the author of five non–fiction books and has been published in over 20 countries and 13 foreign languages – Estonian, Lithuanian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese, Danish, Serbian and Russian. He was born in London, England, in 1973 and raised and educated in Sydney, Australia, by his Australian parents. After working for five years as senior editor of non-fiction at HarperCollins Publishers, Fink won several sportswriting awards as a journalist for Inside Sport magazine, which he served as deputy editor from 2003 to 2006. In 2003 he was nominated for a Walkley Award for Coverage of Sport. In 2006, Fink began writing daily soccer blogs for Fox Sports Australia. The following year he wrote his first book, 15 Days in June, the story of Australia’s performance at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and its forgotten history in Asian football.