Linda Grant
| Linda Grant | |
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| Born | 15 February 1951 Liverpool, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | MA English |
| Alma mater | Simon Fraser, McMaster and York |
| Notable works | The Clothes on Their Backs |
| Website | |
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Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is a British novelist and journalist.
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Early life
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool to a family of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants.
She was educated at The Belvedere School, read English at the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed an M.A. in English at McMaster University in Canada. She did post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.
Career
In 1985, Grant returned to Britain and became a journalist, working for The Guardian, and eventually wrote her own column for eighteen months. She published her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution, in 1993. She wrote a personal memoir of her mother's fight with vascular dementia called Remind Me Who I Am, Again.
Her fiction draws heavily on her Jewish background, family history, and the history of Liverpool. She has developed a special interest in the state of Israel.
Bibliography
Non fiction
- Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution. HarperCollins (London) 1993
- Remind Me Who I Am, Again Granta Books (London) 1998
- The People on the Street, a writer's view of Israel, Virago Press (London) 2006
- The Thoughtful Dresser, Virago Press (London) 2009
Fiction
- The Cast Iron Shore, Granta Books (London) 1995
- When I Lived in Modern Times, Granta Books (London) 2000
- Still Here, Little Brown May (London) 2002
- The Clothes on Their Backs, Virago Press (London) 2008
- We Had It So Good, Virago Press (London) 2011
- Upstairs at the Party, Virago Press (London) 2014
Awards
Grant's début novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction in 1996; awarded to the best first novel of the year.[1] Three years later her second non-fiction work, Remind Me Who I Am Again, won the Mind Book of the Year award.[2] Her second fictional novel, When I Lived in Modern Times won the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction and was short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize the same year.[3][4] In 2002 her third novel Still Here was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.[5]
In 2006, Grant won the First Prize Lettre Ulysses Award for the "Art of Reportage", the last to be awarded, for her non-fiction work about the Israeli people entitled The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel.[6][7] The Clothes on Their Backs was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and won The South Bank Show award in the Literature category.[8][9][10] It was also long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year.[11]
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External links
- EngvarB from August 2014
- Use dmy dates from August 2014
- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1951 births
- Alumni of the University of York
- British journalists
- English Jews
- British Jewish writers
- Living people
- People educated at The Belvedere Academy
- Jewish women writers
- Jewish novelists
- British women novelists
- 20th-century British novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
