Jim Crace

Jim Crace is an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer born on 1 March 1946 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England[1][9]. He became a full-time novelist in 1986 after working as a freelance journalist and has won numerous prestigious awards including the Whitbread Prize, Guardian Fiction Prize, and James Tait Black Memorial Prize[2][6]. Crace is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is considered one of the most significant contemporary British authors[1][7].