Linda Grant

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the American writer of the same name, see Linda Grant (writer, 1942) .

Linda Grant (born February 15, 1951 in Liverpool ) is a British writer and journalist.

Life

Her ancestors were Jewish emigrants from Poland and Russia. She first attended the Belvedere Academy ( Girls' Day School Trust) in Liverpool and studied English from 1972 to 1975 at the University of York in York . She traveled to Canada in 1977 and continued her studies at McMaster University in Hamilton , where she completed a Master of Arts (MA). She completed her postgraduate studies in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University until 1984 . She returned to the UK in 1985 and started working as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper . From 1995 to 2000 she worked there as a columnist , of which from 1997 to 1998 she was a columnist in G2.

Linda Grant made her debut in 1993 with the monograph Versext. The sexual revolution . History and Utopia (Sexing the Millennium. A Political History of the Sexual Revolution). Other non-fiction and fiction followed . She received important awards for the novels When I Lived in Modern Times and The Clothes on Their Backs . In 2003 she traveled to Israel and wrote the book The People on the Street. A Writer's view of Israel . She is a longtime member of the Royal Society of Literature . The University of York awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2012 .

Works

Non-fiction

• Sexing the Millennium. A Political History of the Sexual Revolution . HarperCollins UK , London 1993
  • German translation by Maren Klostermann: Versext. The sexual revolution. History and utopia . Klein, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-89521-013-6 . → Paperback / licensed edition 1996, Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 978-3-404-60426-5 .
• 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

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
  • German translation by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini : Actually a declaration of love . Novel. Claassen-Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-546-00336-0 → second edition: Verlag List, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-60488-6 .
• 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
• A Stranger City . Virago Press, London 2019

Prizes and awards

• 2000: Orange Prize for Fiction for When I Lived in Modern Times
• 2001: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the “Fiction” category for When I Lived in Modern Times
• 2006: Lettre Ulysses Award in the “Reportage” category for The People on the Street. A Writer's view of Israel
• 2009: South Bank Sky Arts Award for The Clothes on Their Backs
• 2009: Nomination for the Man Booker Prize for The Clothes on Their Backs
• 2012: Honorary Doctorate from the University of York
• 2020: Wingate Literary Prize for A Stranger City

literature

• "Linda Grant" in; Martin Kindermann: At home in the text. Spatial constitution and memory construction in the contemporary Anglo-Jewish novel (= Jewish cultural history in modern times , vol. 6). (also dissertation University of Hamburg 2014), Neofelis Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943414-59-2 , pp. 78–149.

Web links

• Literature by and about Linda Grant in the catalog of the German National Library
• Linda Grant (presence) (English)
• Linda Grant - About the Author (English)
• Author profile on Babelio (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linda Grant. The Guardian , 2016, accessed October 11, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Linda Grant - About the Author. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .