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Linda Grant was born on 15 February, 1951 in Liverpool, England, is an English novelist and journalist. Discover Linda Grant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Novelist
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 15 February 1951
Birthday 15 February
Birthplace Liverpool, England
Nationality Liverpool

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1950

She was the oldest child of Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing products, and Rose Haft; both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian-Jewish – and they adopted the surname Grant in the early 1950s.

1951

Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist.

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool.

1972

She was educated at The Belvedere School, read English at the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed an M.A. in English at McMaster University in Canada.

She did post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.

1985

In 1985, Grant returned to England and became a journalist, working for The Guardian, and eventually wrote her own column for eighteen months.

1993

She published her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution, in 1993.

1996

Grant's début novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction in 1996; awarded to the best first novel of the year.

Three years later her second, non-fiction, work, Remind Me Who I Am Again, won both the Mind and Age Concern Book of the Year awards.

2000

Her second fictional novel, When I Lived in Modern Times won the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction and was short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize the same year.

2002

In 2002 her third novel Still Here was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.

2003

She wrote a personal memoir of her mother's fight with vascular dementia called Remind Me Who I Am, Again, which was cited in a discussion about ageing on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed in December 2003.

Her fiction draws heavily on her Jewish background, family history, and the history of Liverpool.

2006

In 2006, Grant won the First Prize Lettre Ulysses Award for the "Art of Reportage", the last to be awarded, for her non-fiction work about the Israeli people entitled The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel.

2008

In an interview by Emma Parker for the University of Leicester's July 2008 'Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women's Writing and Diaspora' conference, and later published in the journal Wasafiri, Grant said: "I always wanted to make my living as a writer, but you couldn’t get a job as an author, so I got a job as a reporter on a local paper just before my eighteenth birthday. I always knew that sooner or later I would write fiction, although I didn’t realise it would be as late as it was. I didn’t write a novel until after the age of forty because it took me a long time to find a fictional voice, which was to do with being Jewish. […] I had been trying different voices and found none adequate. I felt that there were two modes open to me. One was to have a voice like Howard Jacobson, which is absolutely embedded within a recognisable Jewish community, but I was from a community which was not recognised as Jewish.

People say, ‘Oh, I never knew that there were any Jews in Liverpool’.

Also, growing up in a middle-class family made me marginal to the Liverpool voice, which had always been working-class or Irish.

And then there was the generalised middle-class English voice, which always felt to me like ventriloquism.

And I didn’t feel that I could write like an American Jewish author such as Philip Roth, who shows how Jewish Americans, like Irish Americans and Italian Americans, have contributed to American national identity, because by the time the Jews arrived here, British national identity had already been formed.

And that’s why my first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, is about somebody who feels marginal.

It was only when I started writing about people who are marginal, who have problematic identities and problems with belonging, that I found my voice."

The Clothes on Their Backs was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and won The South Bank Show award in the Literature category.

It was also long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year.

2012

Grant's choices of her favourite pieces of classical music were broadcast as part of BBC Radio 3's Saturday Classics in June 2012.

2014

In 2014, Grant was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

2016

In November 2016, The Guardian newspaper published a detailed account of Grant's writing process, in which she noted, "My rituals of writing are so calcified I could be an elderly colonel at his gentleman's club: ironed newspaper, tea piping hot, shoes the correct colour for in town. Without the scaffolding of my habits, I'm superstitiously convinced I'd never write a word. I don't – can't – write after lunch, in a cafe or any other public place, including trains and planes, or when anyone else is in the house. It's an act of severe, intense solitude, partly now destroyed by the internet, and its deceptive promise of the ease of looking things up as you go along."

2017

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