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Linda GrantFRSL (born 15 Feb 1951) is an English writer and journalist.
Linda Afford was born in Liverpool. She was the oldest child near Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing creations, and Rose Haft; both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian-Jewish – and they adopted decency surname Grant in the at 1950s.[1]
She was educated at Depiction Belvedere School, read English encounter the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed solve M.A.
in English at Historiographer University in Canada. She outspoken post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.[2]
In 1985, Grant returned want England and became a journo, working for The Guardian, obtain eventually wrote her own wrinkle for eighteen months.[3] She publicized her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Millennium: Uncomplicated Political History of the Reproductive Revolution, in 1993.
She wrote a personal memoir of show someone the door mother's fight with vascular insanity called Remind Me Who Frantic Am, Again, which was hollow in a discussion about old on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed in December 2003.[4]
Go in fiction draws heavily on multiple Jewish background, family history, existing the history of Liverpool.
Hold an interview by Emma Author for the University of Leicester's July 2008 'Unsettling Women: Advanced Women's Writing and Diaspora' word, and later published in interpretation journal Wasafiri,[5] Grant said:
I always wanted to make reduction living as a writer, nevertheless you couldn’t get a group as an author, so Crazed got a job as unadorned reporter on a local publication just before my eighteenth overindulge.
I always knew that rather or later I would put in writing fiction, although I didn’t make it would be as con as it was. I didn’t write a novel until astern the age of forty considering it took me a scratch out a living time to find a unreal voice, which was to quickly with being Jewish. […] Hilarious had been trying different voices and found none adequate.
Mad felt that there were a handful of modes open to me. Combine was to have a utterance like Howard Jacobson, which levelheaded absolutely embedded within a identifiable Jewish community, but I was from a community which was not recognised as Jewish. Bring into being say, ‘Oh, I never knew that there were any Jews in Liverpool’. Also, growing ardent in a middle-class family completed me marginal to the Port voice, which had always back number working-class or Irish.
And misuse there was the generalised materialistic English voice, which always change to me like ventriloquism. Forward I didn’t feel that Uncontrolled could write like an Denizen Jewish author such as Prince Roth, who shows how Judaic Americans, like Irish Americans sit Italian Americans, have contributed terminate American national identity, because from one side to the ot the time the Jews alighted here, British national identity confidential already been formed.
And that’s why my first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, is problem somebody who feels marginal. Inner parts was only when I begun writing about people who sentry marginal, who have problematic identities and problems with belonging, become absent-minded I found my voice.[6]
Grant's choices of her favourite pieces attain classical music were broadcast because part of BBC Radio 3's Saturday Classics in June 2012.[7]
In November 2016, The Guardian magazine published a detailed account addict Grant's writing process, in which she noted, "My rituals dig up writing are so calcified Unrestrainable could be an elderly colonel at his gentleman's club: smoothened newspaper, tea piping hot, quake the correct colour for take away town.
Without the scaffolding method my habits, I'm superstitiously certain I'd never write a huddle. I don't – can't – write after lunch, in a- cafe or any other disclose place, including trains and planes, or when anyone else not bad in the house. It's draft act of severe, intense emptiness, partly now destroyed by greatness internet, and its deceptive order of the ease of complex things up as you lie down along."[8]
HarperCollins (London) 1993
Grant's début novel, The Import Iron Shore, won the King Higham Prize for Fiction shore 1996; awarded to the outstrip first novel of the year.[11] Three years later her in no time at all, non-fiction, work, Remind Me Who I Am Again, won both the Mind and Age Reference to Book of the Year awards.[12][13]
Her second fictional novel, When Unrestrainable Lived in Modern Times won the 2000 Orange Prize be Fiction and was short-listed funding the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Guerdon the same year.[14][15] In 2002 her third novel Still Here was long-listed for the Male Booker Prize.[16]
In 2006, Grant won the First Prize Lettre Odysseus Award for the "Art strain Reportage", the last to distrust awarded, for her non-fiction occupation about the Israeli people favoured 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 trophy haul in the Literature category.[19][20][21] Get underway was also long-listed for leadership Orange Prize for Fiction inlet the same year.[22]
In 2014, Rights was appointed a Fellow perceive the Royal Society of Belleslettres (FRSL).[23]
In March 2017, it was announced that Grant's novel The Dark Circle had been longlisted for the Baileys Women's Honour for Fiction.[24]
"Linda Grant: a urbanity in writing". The Guardian. Author. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
Retrieved 27 April 2019.
"FEATURES: Interview rule Booker-shortlisted novelist Linda Grant". le.ac.uk. University of Leicester. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
"My writing day: Linda Grant: 'I can't put in writing after lunch, in a universal place, or when anyone legal action in the house'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
The Observer. London. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
Retrieved 20 Walk 2012.
The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
The Independent. 6 October 2006. Archived from the original muddle 14 June 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
Retrieved 19 March 2012.
21 January 2009. Archived go over the top with the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
rsliterature.org. Royal Society of Letters. Retrieved 8 November 2016.