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About Jim Crace
English novelist, playwright and short story writer
Jim Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Born in Hertfordshire, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. He has 89 quotes on the site. Crace’s fiction has reached readers far beyond Britain, with his novels translated into 28 languages, including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew. He has also lectured at the University of Texas at Austin, and his work is known through novels, plays and short stories alike.
More from Jim Crace (89 quotes) →Other sayings from Jim Crace
- “For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.”Jim Crace
- “If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not goin…”Jim Crace
- “Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm a…”Jim Crace
- “When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaph…”Jim Crace
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Books by Jim Crace
The pesthouse
2008
The gift of stones
1996
Arcadia
1992
All that follows
2010
Quarantine
1999