9 An Intimate Evening with Linda Grant

More than a decade ago, Linda Grant won the Orange Prize for Fiction for her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times. Since then, she has won the hearts and minds of readers throughout the world with her eye for social commentary and analysis. She has been longlisted (for Still Here) and shortlisted (for The Clothes on Their Backs) for the Man Booker Prize for her fiction and has won the Lettre Ulysses Prize for the Art of Reportage. Born in Liverpool and now living in London, she returns to familiar territory with her visit to the Writers Festival as she spent seven years in Vancouver completing postgraduate studies at Simon Fraser University. Journalist, novelist, playwright and essayist, Grant is a remarkable and incisive writer whose latest novel is We Had It So Good.

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