Jim Crace

Jim Crace

Crace at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Crace at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
BornJames Crace
(1946-03-01) 1 March 1946 (age 78)
St Albans, England
Occupation
  • Writer
  • novelist
  • playwright
  • short story writer
NationalityEnglish
Period1974–
GenreRealistic fiction, historical fiction
Notable works
Notable awardsDavid Higham Prize for Fiction
1986
Guardian Fiction Prize
1986
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
1994
American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award
1996
National Book Critics Circle Award
1999
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2013
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2015
International Dublin Literary Award
2015
SpousePamela Turton
Children2
Website
www.jim-crace.com

James Crace FRSL (born 1 March 1946) is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew.[1]

Crace's first novel, Continent, was published in 1986. Signals of Distress won the 1994 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His next novel, Quarantine, won the Whitbread Novel in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize of the same year. Being Dead won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999. Harvest was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, won the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and won the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award.

Crace received the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in 1996. He was awarded a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in 2015.

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