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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.
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- “I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over…”Jim Crace
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- “When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?',…”Jim Crace
- “I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.”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