Linda Grant

Nov 13, 2024 | lithub.com | Linda Grant

I was not born Linda Grant. First I was Ginsberg. “I’m probably related to the poet,” I boasted when I grew old enough to value lies and exaggerations. My father arrived in England as a baby with his family as part of the waves of turn-of-the century Eastern European pogrom immigration. His father had deserted from the Russian army and as family legend told it, changed his name from (possibly Rosen?) to Ginsberg to evade capture.

Nov 10, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Linda Grant

My parents, products of the flight from turn-of-the-century eastern European pogroms, brought up their children to believe that the world was a dark place for Jews, where antisemitism was a permanent condition; trust no-one but your own kind, there is no safety outside of the embrace of your own community. Zionism is the future: Israel is more than a bolthole, it is a land of suntans, oranges and freedom.

Jun 22, 2023 | fivebooks.com | Linda Grant |Tom Crewe |Jonathan Coe |Selby Wynn Schwartz

Demon Copperhead 🏆 Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction🏆 Winner of the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction“This is a real blockbuster of a novel with stunning energy, enormous humor, wit and sheer narrative drive. It’s a retelling of Dickens’s , from the title onwards.

May 11, 2023 | thebookseller.com | Sian Bayley |Ian Williams |Eleanor Catton |Linda Grant

Authors including Barbara Kingsolver, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Emily Kenway have been shortlisted for the Orwell Prizes for Political Writing and Political Fiction.  Seventeen books have been shortlisted for the two book prizes, including eight works of fiction and nine non-fiction titles. Kingsolver has made the cut for political fiction with Demon Copperhead (Faber), also nominated for the Women’s Prize, while Azumah Nelson has been shortlisted for Small Worlds (Viking).