Jim Crace

Jim Crace FRSL
Crace at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Born	James Crace (1946-03-01) 1 March 1946 (age 78) St Albans, England
Occupation	Writer novelist playwright short story writer
Nationality	English
Period	1974–
Genre	Realistic fiction, historical fiction
Notable works	Continent The Gift of Stones Arcadia Signals of Distress Quarantine Being Dead Harvest
Notable awards	David 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
Spouse	Pamela Turton
Children	2
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.