Linda Grant

Quick Facts

Full Name	Linda Grant
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 15, 1951(1951-02-15)
Age	73
Birthplace	Liverpool
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Linda Grant Biography

Linda Grant is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 15, 1951 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. Linda Grant, FRSL was born 15 February 1951. She is an English journalist and novelist.

When I Lived In Modern Times, her second fiction novel, won the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction. She was also shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize that same year. Her third novel, Still Here, was long-listed in 2002 for the Man Booker Prize.

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

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

Grant’s debut novel, The Cast Iron Shore won the David Higham Fiction Prize in

1996. This award was given to the best novel of the year. Grant’s second non- fiction work, Remind me Who I Am Again, was published three years later and won both the Mind and Age Concern Book of the year awards.

Linda Grant Net Worth

Linda Grant is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Linda Grant 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She attended The Belvedere School and studied English at The University of York (1972-1975). After that, she completed an M.A. She studied English at McMaster University, Canada. She completed post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.

Grant returned to England in 1985 and worked for The Guardian as a journalist. She eventually started her own column and remained there for 18 months. In 1993, she published her first non-fiction book, Sexing the Millennium, A Political History of the Sexual Revolution. Remind me Who I Am, Again is her personal memoir about her mother’s battle with vascular dementia. It was featured in a BBC Radio 4 discussion on ageing in December 2003.

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. 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.

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“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.”

Facts & Trivia

Linda Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Linda Grant celebrates birthday on February 15 of every year.

Top Facts about Linda Grant

1. Linda Grant is an English novelist and journalist.
2. She was born in Liverpool in 1951.
3. Her debut novel, “The Cast Iron Shore,” was published in 1995.
4. Grant has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Orange Prize for Fiction.
5. She has written seven novels to date.
6. Grant’s work often explores themes of identity and belonging.
7. In addition to her fiction writing, she has also worked as a journalist for The Guardian and other publications.
8. Grant was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Liverpool in 2010.
9. Her most recent novel, “A Stranger City,” was published in 2019.
10. She currently lives in London with her husband and daughter.