Linda Grant

1951–

English novelist and journalist whose fiction draws on Jewish family history, displacement and the city of Liverpool. Born in Liverpool into a Jewish family, she studied English at the University of York and took a master’s degree at McMaster University in Canada, later writing for The Guardian. Her debut novel, The Cast Iron Shore (1995), won the David Higham Prize for Fiction, and When I Lived in Modern Times won the 2000 Orange Prize. The Clothes on Their Backs (2008), about a young Londoner’s encounter with her Hungarian refugee uncle, was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Linda Grant’s life

Works

• Still Here (2002)
• The Clothes on Their Backs (2008)

Prizes

• The Clothes on Their Backs — The Booker Prize 2008: Shortlist, Longlist
• Still Here — The Booker Prize 2002: Longlist