Jim Crace

Jim Crace is a British novelist born in Hertfordshire in 1946, known for fiction of exceptional originality that often takes place in unnamed, imagined landscapes or in the deep past. He is the author of Continent (1986), The Gift of Stones (1988), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), The Devil's Larder (2001), Six (2003), The Pesthouse (2007), and Harvest (2013). Harvest, a novel set in an unnamed pre-industrial English village at the moment of the Enclosure Acts, won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. It has been widely described as a masterpiece of lyrical prose and historical imagination. Crace briefly announced his retirement from fiction after Harvest, but returned to write Melody (2022). He won the Whitbread First Novel Award for Continent, and Quarantine was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997. He lives in Birmingham and received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.