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Jim Crace

(b.1946)

Jim Crace is the author of nine novels, including Quarantine (FSG, 1997), which won the 1997 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in England.

Awards: Dublin (2015), James Tait Black (2013), NBCC (2000), Whitbread (1997) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Gift of Stones (1988)
   Arcadia (1992)
   Signals of Distress (1994)
   Quarantine (1997)
   Being Dead (1999)
   Six (2003)
     aka Genesis
   The Pesthouse (2007)
   All That Follows (2010)
   Harvest (2013)
   The Melody (2018)
   Eden (2022)

Collections

The Slow Digestions of the Night (1995)
The Devil's Larder (2001)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Love, Hate & Kicking Ass (2007)
   The Secrets of My Success (2007)
   On Heat (2008)

Series contributed to

Art of the Story
Continent (1986)

Books containing stories by Jim Crace

Writing On the Edge (2010)
Great Contemporary Writers On the Front Line of Crisis
edited by
Dan Crowe

The New Review Anthology (1985)
edited by
Ian Hamilton

Conjunctions 1 (1981)
Inaugural Double-Issue
(Conjunctions, book 1)
edited by
Bradford Morrow

Awards

	2015 Dublin Literary Award : Harvest
	2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Harvest
	2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : Being Dead
	1997 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : Quarantine
	1986 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel : Continent
	1986 Guardian Fiction Prize : Continent

Award nominations

	2014 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : Harvest
	2013 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee) : Harvest
	2013 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Harvest
	1999 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : Being Dead
	1999 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Quarantine
	1997 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Quarantine

Jim Crace recommends

Sparrow (2023)
James Hynes
"A novel of ancient times for our times. And it is splendid, a work of sorching distinction."

Once Upon a River (2018)
Diane Setterfield
"This is magical, bewitching story telling – and so cleverly structured…it possesses all those narrative values I have always cherished…: high prose expressed with rare clarity, story for the unashamed sake of story, a kind of moral dreaminess."

The End We Start From (2017)
Megan Hunter
"I can't remember ever having read a novel quite as sparing or as daring as Megan Hunter's The End We Start From, or one that delivers so mighty an impact from such delicate materials. It is a moving, wistful and compelling debut."

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