Linda Grant



Profile:


Full name: Linda Grant

Area of interest: Society and Values; Israel; Fashion

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:lg@lindagrant.co.uk lg@lindagrant.co.uk]

Website: Linda Grant.co.uk; Guardian.co / Linda Grant

Blog: Comment is free...

Agent: APwatt; press resources: Little, Brown

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Biography:
Education: The Belvedere School (Girls' Day School Trust); University of York: English; McMaster University, Canada: MA English; Simon Fraser University: post-graduate studies

Career: Former Feature writer and Columnist at The Guardian and Jewish Chronicle, see: Comment is free profile Current position/role: journalist and novelist


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Other activities: advisory panel member for the MA in Creative Writing at Middlesex University; leading member of the Society of Authors; patron of the National Academy of Writing

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TV/Radio: BBC Radio 3 - 'Work in progress'... Linda Grant talks about a novel she is writing, set in her native Liverpool January 2002

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Awards/Honours: Orange Prize for Fiction, 2000; Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage, 2006

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Books & Debate:

 * LindaGrant.co.uk: books
 * The people on the street, a writer's view of Israel OCLC 62479045, 2006
 * Still here OCLC 49986502 ,fiction, 2002
 * When I lived in modern times OCLC 44683500 ,fiction, 2000
 * Remind me who I am, gain OCLC 40001667, 1998
 * The cast iron shore OCLC 35042828 ,fiction, 1995
 * Sexing the millenium: a political history of the sexual revolution OCLC 29519157, 1993

Latest work: The clothes on their backs OCLC 175283951 ,fiction, 2008

Speaking/Appearances: LindaGrant.co.uk: events
 * Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts Writers’ Week 3rd March 2008

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Column remit: Society and Values; Israel; Fashion

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Articles:

 * Palin, with her meat loaf and rifles, reminds us that there are two hopelessly incompatible Americas - Thursday, 4th September 2008 (Sarah Palin, Wikipedia)
 * How can they understand? - A new film about the Holocaust, aimed at children, represents the Disneyfication of the Final Solution. Can the horrors of the Nazis ever make great cinema? - Friday, August 29th 2008
 * New Tory stories - If you want to understand the habits of the Cameron set, just read the novels of Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris - Wednesday, 20th August 2008
 * A reckoning for the women victims of the Bosnian war? - Now that Karadzic has been arrested, perhaps we will now learn the truth about the use of rape as a weapon of war in the conflict - guardian.co.uk - Wednesday, 23rd July 2008
 * Forget burning bras - feminism was built on the trouser suit - guardian.co.uk - Tuesday, 3rd June 2008
 * The bullies' charter - It doesn't take much for online commenters to descend into abusive and bullying postings - we must reclaim political discourse - guardian.co.uk - Monday, 21st January 2008
 * I should apologise - Somewhere, behind the anonymous and strident cacophony of the discussion threads, lies a community waiting to emerge - guardian.co.uk - Tuesday, 13th November 2007



Links:

 * LindaGrant.co.uk: Selected Journalism