Linda Grant
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Linda Grant

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Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She was educated at the Belvedere School (GDST), read English at the University of York, completed an M.A. in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and did further post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where she lived from 1977 to 1984. She now lives in London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. website lindagrant.co.uk

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
The Dark Circle, Virago Press (London) 2016
A Stranger City , Virago Press (London) 2019

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

Awards

The Dark Circle
Shortlisted for the Bailey's Prize for Fiction
Jewish Quarterly Prize
Longlisted Walter Scott prize for historical fiction

The Clothes On Their Backs
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
Winner South Bank Show Award

The People on the Street:A Writer's View of Israel
Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage

Still Here
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002

When I Lived in Modern Times
Winner, Orange Prize for Fiction 2000
Shorlisted: Jewish Quarterly Prize, Encore Prize

Remind Me Who I Am, Again
Mind Book of the Year 1999
Age Concern Book of the Year 1999

The Cast Iron Shore
David Higham First Novel Prize
Shortlisted Guardian Fiction Prize
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