Grace McCleen
Grace McCleen (born 1981 in Monmouthshire , United Kingdom ) is a British author.
Life
Grace McCleen grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family. She studied English literature at Oxford University and York University . She lives as a singer, songwriter, artist and author in London .
Her debut novel, The Land of Decoration , won the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2012 and the Betty Trask Award in 2013. It has been translated and has appeared in over twenty countries. McCleen stated that she would no longer write novels and focus on her career as a singer, but her second novel, The Professor of Poetry , was published in 2013 and a third, The Offering , was published in 2015.
Works
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The land of decoration: a novel . New York: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
- Where milk and honey flow: Roman . From the English by Barbara Heller. Munich: Dt. Verl.-Anst. 2013
- The Professor of Poetry . Scepter 2013
- The Offering . Scepter 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Grace McCleen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Grace McCleen in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Grace McCleen , website
- Grace McCleen , at Randomhouse
- Beatrice Hodgkin: Variations on a theme , Financial Times , July 6, 2013, p. 12
Individual evidence
- ↑ about , on the homepage of Grace McCleen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCleen, Grace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monmouthshire , UK |