Sid Kipper is the stage name of Chris
Sugden, a Norfolk humorist. Kipper studied for a PhD
at the University of East Anglia. Kipper is the 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-deprecating 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 also the author of The Cromer-Sheringham
Crab Wars and the song Like a Rhinestone Ploughboy.
He is the compiler of a rhyming dictionary of Norfolk
place-names for song-writing purposes. In 1996 he published
The Ballad of Sid Kipper. The Eastern Daily Press columnist
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"." |