Sid Kipper

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Sid Kipper is the writing nom de plume of Chris Sugden, Norfolk Humorist. Born West Runton 1952. Studied for PhD at University of East Anglia author of Prewd and Prejudice (1994) in which the heroine Miriam Prewd spends a traumatic year of ?Norfolk exile?. Written in his characteristic dead-pan style Prewd and Prejudice concerns itself with the Norfolk countryside, misconceptions about Norfolk and its self-depreciating folk. Kipper wrote of it -

The national papers seemed to think that it took the mickey out of country people, while the Norfolk people thought it ridiculed Londoners!

Kipper is the author of The Cromer-Sheringham Crab wars, the song, Like a Rhinetone Ploughboy and the compiler of an (as of yet) unpublished rhyming dictionary of Norfolk place-names for song-writing purposes. In 1996 he published The Ballad of Sid Kipper. The Eastern Daily Press columist Keith Skipper claimed that Sid is-

Probably the county?s finest ambassador who captures, "the true spirit of Norfolk, teaches it tricks, then sends it to run riot across the land".