Linda Grant, 2000 (photo)

Linda Grant (b. 1951). British novelist and journalist. Her fiction draws heavily on her Jewish background, family history, and the history of Liverpool. Her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction in 1996. In 1999 her non-fiction work, Remind Me Who I Am Again, won the Mind Book of the Year award. in 2000 she won the Orange Prize for Fiction with When I Lived in Modern Times. 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.[6][7] 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.[8][9][10] It was also long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year.[11]