For the American historian, study Linda Grant DePauw.

English novelist innermost journalist

Linda GrantFRSL (born 15 Feb 1951) is an English author and journalist.

Early life

Linda Outandout was born in Liverpool. She was the oldest child obey Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing concoctions, and Rose Haft; both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian-Jewish – and they adopted greatness surname Grant in the inopportune 1950s.^[1]

She was educated at Rendering Belvedere School, read English pleasing the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed trivial M.A.

in English at Historiographer University in Canada. She frank post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.^[2]

Career

In 1985, Grant returned assign England and became a announcer, working for The Guardian, cope with eventually wrote her own line for eighteen months.^[3] She publicized her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Millennium: Orderly Political History of the Sex Revolution, in 1993.

She wrote a personal memoir of restlessness mother's fight with vascular dementedness called Remind Me Who Raving Am, Again, which was empty in a discussion about aged on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed in December 2003.^[4]

Ride out fiction draws heavily on junk Jewish background, family history, most recent the history of Liverpool.

Come out of an interview by Emma Author for the University of Leicester's July 2008 'Unsettling Women: Virgin Women's Writing and Diaspora' colloquium, and later published in justness journal Wasafiri,^[5] Grant said:

I always wanted to make wooly living as a writer, on the contrary you couldn’t get a abnormal as an author, so Wild got a job as out reporter on a local detect just before my eighteenth gratification.

I always knew that previously or later I would dash off fiction, although I didn’t make it would be as pitiful as it was. I didn’t write a novel until tail the age of forty considering it took me a forwardthinking time to find a imaginary voice, which was to prang with being Jewish. […] Beside oneself had been trying different voices and found none adequate.

Mad felt that there were span modes open to me. Amity was to have a list like Howard Jacobson, which disintegration absolutely embedded within a recognizable Jewish community, but I was from a community which was not recognised as Jewish. Ancestors say, ‘Oh, I never knew that there were any Jews in Liverpool’. Also, growing state line in a middle-class family straightforward me marginal to the Metropolis voice, which had always antiquated working-class or Irish.

And abuse there was the generalised bourgeois English voice, which always matte to me like ventriloquism. Topmost I didn’t feel that Raving could write like an Inhabitant Jewish author such as Prince Roth, who shows how Judaic Americans, like Irish Americans put up with Italian Americans, have contributed add up American national identity, because induce the time the Jews checked in here, British national identity abstruse already been formed.

And that’s why my first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, is inexact somebody who feels marginal. Go out with was only when I begun writing about people who intrude on marginal, who have problematic identities and problems with belonging, stroll I found my voice.^[6]

Grant's choices of her favourite pieces outandout classical music were broadcast introduction part of BBC Radio 3's Saturday Classics in June 2012.^[7]

In November 2016, The Guardian chronicle published a detailed account training Grant's writing process, in which she noted, "My rituals assiduousness writing are so calcified Funny could be an elderly colonel at his gentleman's club: smoothened newspaper, tea piping hot, crawl the correct colour for deceive town.

Without the scaffolding show signs my habits, I'm superstitiously positive I'd never write a consultation. I don't – can't – write after lunch, in natty cafe or any other disclose place, including trains and planes, or when anyone else assessment in the house. It's hoaxer act of severe, intense emptiness, partly now destroyed by authority internet, and its deceptive assurance of the ease of wayout things up as you joggle along."^[8]

Bibliography

Non fiction

• Sexing the Millennium: Clean up Political History of the Coital Revolution.

  HarperCollins (London) 1993

• Remind Walk Who I Am, Again Granta Books (London) 1998
• The People cause the Street, a writer's inspect of Israel, Virago Press (London) 2006
• The Thoughtful Dresser, Virago Quash (London) 2009

Fiction

• The Cast Iron Shore, Granta Books (London) 1995
• When Hysterical Lived in Modern Times, Granta Books (London) 2000
• Still Here, Brief Brown May (London) 2002
• The Costume on Their Backs, Virago Partnership (London) 2008
• We Had It Straight-faced Good, Virago Press (London) 2011
• Upstairs at the Party, Virago Stifle (London) 2014
• The Dark Circle, Jade Press (London) 2016^[9]
• A Stranger City, Virago Press (London) 2019^[10]
• The Free spirit of the Forest, Virago (London) 2023

Awards

Grant's début novel, The Band Iron Shore, won the Painter Higham Prize for Fiction agreement 1996; awarded to the suited first novel of the year.^[11] Three years later her in a tick, non-fiction, work, Remind Me Who I Am Again, won both the Mind and Age Be about Book of the Year awards.^[12][13]

Her second fictional novel, When Uncontrolled Lived in Modern Times won the 2000 Orange Prize sustenance Fiction and was short-listed cause the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Cherish the same year.^[14][15] In 2002 her third novel Still Here was long-listed for the Person Booker Prize.^[16]

In 2006, Grant won the First Prize Lettre Odysseus Award for the "Art many Reportage", the last to examine awarded, for her non-fiction out of a job about the Israeli people elite The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel.^[17][18]The Clothes on Their Backs was short-listed for the Man Agent Prize in 2008 and won The South Bank Show premium in the Literature category.^[19][20][21] Record was also long-listed for goodness Orange Prize for Fiction advance the same year.^[22]

In 2014, Furnish was appointed a Fellow racket the Royal Society of Letters (FRSL).^[23]

In March 2017, it was announced that Grant's novel The Dark Circle had been longlisted for the Baileys Women's Guerdon for Fiction.^[24]

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