Jim Crace

Jim Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer, born in Hertfordshire in 1946. His first novel, Continent, appeared in 1986, and his novel Quarantine won the Whitbread Novel prize in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. Harvest was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2013 and took the James Tait Black Memorial Prize the same year, and he also wrote The Pesthouse.