Concern Book of the Year awards. Her second fictional novel, When I Lived in Modern Times won the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction and was short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize the same year. In 2002 her third novel Still Here was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. In 2006, Grant won the First Prize Lettre Ulysses Award for the "Art of Reportage", the last to be awarded, for her non-fiction work about the Israeli people entitled The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel. The Clothes on Their Backs was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and won The South Bank Show award in the Literature category. It was also long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year. In 2014, Grant was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). In March 2017, it was announced that Grant's novel The Dark Circle had been longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. References External links Journalisted – Articles by Linda Grant 1951 births Alumni of the University of York English women journalists English Jewish writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Living people People educated at The Belvedere Academy Jewish women writers Jewish novelists English women novelists 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers The Guardian journalists English women non-fiction writers