Continent won the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award, the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Guardian Fiction Prize. From 1976 to 1987 he worked as a freelance journalist for The Daily Telegraph and other newspapers. Two years later he returned to the UK, and worked with the BBC, writing educational programmes. After securing a BA (Hons) in English Literature in 1968, he travelled overseas with the UK organization Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), working in Sudan. He studied for a degree at the Birmingham College of Commerce (now part of Birmingham City University), where he was enrolled as an external student of the University of London. Harvest won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Ĭrace grew up in Forty Hill, an area at the far northern point of Greater London, close to Enfield where Crace attended Enfield Grammar School. His novel Quarantine, won the Whitbread Novel award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. James "Jim" Crace is an award-winning English writer.
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