Profile:
Full name: Linda Grant
Area of interest: Society and Values; Israel; Fashion
Journals/Organisation: The Guardian
Email: lg@lindagrant.co.uk
Personal website: http://www.lindagrant.co.uk
Website: Guardian.co / Linda Grant
Blog: Comment is free...
Representation: APwatt; press resources: Little, Brown
Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/lindasgrant
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Biography:
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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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Video: 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
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Articles:
- Galliano and the taste for transgression - Fashion's endless appetite for taboo-busting has played its own part in this antisemitic bar rant - 1st March 2011
- Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion - Like the Exodus in 1947, the Gaza aid flotilla has now etched itself on the mind – whatever the eventual consequences - 4th June 2010
- The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu - A bestselling Israeli novel of early Zionism undergoes some telling revisions, says Linda Grant - 10th April 2010
- Ike Aronowitz obituary - Fiery captain of the Exodus 1947, the ship that carried Holocaust survivors from France to Palestine - 27th December 2009
- Honest MPs do exist - Politicians who want to make a difference and serve the public cannot say so – and if they do, no one will believe them - 11th June 2009
- 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
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