Linda Grant (novelist)
Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is a British novelist and occasional journalist.
Early life
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool to a family of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants.
She was educated at The Belvedere School (Girls' Day School Trust), 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 second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times won the Orange Prize. 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.
In 2006, she was named a winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for reportage.
The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize and won the South Bank Show award in the Literature category.
Bibliography
Non fiction
- The Thoughtful Dresser, Virago Press (London) 2009
- The People on the Street, a writer's view of Israel, Virago Press (London) 2006
- Remind Me Who I Am, Again Granta Books (London) 1998
- Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution. HarperCollins (London) 1993
Fiction
- We Had It So Good, Virago Press (London) 2011
- The Clothes On Their Backs, Virago Press (London) 2008
- Still Here, Little Brown May (London) 2002
- When I Lived in Modern Times, Granta Books (London) 2000
- The Cast Iron Shore, Granta Books (London) 1995
Awards
- The Clothes on Their Backs (2008) Shortlisted, Booker Prize; Longlisted, Orange Prize for Fiction
- The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel (2006) Winner, Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage
- Still Here (2002) Longlisted, Booker Prize
- When I Lived in Modern Times (2000) Winner Orange Prize for Fiction; shortlisted Jewish Quarterly Prize
- Remind Me Who I Am Again (1998) Winner, Mind Book of the Year; Winner, Age Concern Book of the Year
- The Cast Iron Shore (1996) Winner, David Higham First Novel Prize; shortlisted, Guardian Book of the Year
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