jeff's dyer work is a in relation addition of all our writers' lives. jeff dyer?>> you get the same fat check as the last writer. [laughter] >> thank you so much. i'm really -- i'm really overwhelmed actually. from the time i began writing really i always -- cussed i loved writing so much be published in america and so to be recognized in america by a jury -- if that's the right word of fellow critics is really fantastic. it's the phil cilman of a dream really. i've got lots of people to think and actually i want to begin by thanking one of my fellow finalists. my friend jonathan, there's two kinds of clever people. there are clever people who make me feel stupid and there are clever people who make you feel more clever. jonathan is in the latter camp and it seems to such an extent that by being on the short list with him i've sort of been elevated to some super clever level but i also need to thank him because he actually gave me the title for giving the room of the english edition of essays and so it was so generous of him and in an equal rash generosity i don't