Jim Crace
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Jim Crace at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.
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| Born | James Crace 1 March 1946 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 1974–present |
| Genre | Realistic fiction, historical fiction |
| Notable works | Continent, Quarantine, Being Dead, Harvest |
| Spouse | Pamela Turton |
| Children | 2 |
James "Jim" Crace (born 1 March 1946) is an award-winning English writer. His novels include Quarantine, which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998, and Harvest, which won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
Crace was born at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, and grew up at the far northern point of Greater London, close to Enfield, where Crace attended Enfield Grammar School. He studied for a degree at the Birmingham College of Commerce (now part of Birmingham City University), where he was enrolled as an external student of the University of London. While at university, Crace edited and contributed to the Birmingham Sun, the newspaper of the Guild of Students, University of Aston. He was awarded an external Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of London in 1968.
Immediately after graduating from university, Crace joined the Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) and was sent to Khartoum, Sudan. He traveled through Africa and briefly taught at a village school called Kgosi Kgari Sechele Secondary School in Molepolole, Botswana. Two years later he returned to the UK, and worked with the BBC, writing educational programmes.
From 1976 to 1987 he worked as a freelance journalist, before giving up due to the excessive "political interference" he experienced at newspapers such as The Sunday Times.
In 1974 he published his first work of prose fiction, Annie, California Plates in The New Review, and in the next 10 years would write a number of short stories and radio plays, including:
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