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The Pesthouse

Author Jim Crace awarded literary prize

May 8, 2014 - Jane Robbins Mize

Jim Crace

This year, novelist Jim Crace, whose archive resides in the Ransom Center, has received an award of $150,000 for his fiction writing. Presented by Yale University, the Windham Campbell Prize is awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and drama to financially support their literary endeavors.

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Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Being Dead, Continent, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harvest, Jim Crace, Man Booker Prize, Quarentine, The Pesthouse, Windham Campbell Prize, Yale University

Jim Crace shortlisted for Booker Prize

September 11, 2013 - Alicia Dietrich

Cover of Jim Crace's novel "Harvest."
Cover of Jim Crace's novel "Harvest."

Author Jim Crace, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Harvest (Nan A. Talese/Picador).

Crace was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his 1997 novel Quarantine. The winner of the Booker will be announced at a ceremony in London on Ocober 15.

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Harvest, Jim Crace, Man Booker Prize, Quarantine, The Pesthouse

Driftwood in an archive

June 28, 2012 - Jennifer Tisdale

Writer Jim Crace, author of Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), speaks about ephermera in archives and the narratives and stories they provide.

Crace elaborates about a piece of driftwood found in his archive that contains a note that was later incorporated into his novel Signals of Distress (1996).

Enter by July 13 for a chance to win a signed copy of Crace’s Continent by visiting the Ransom Center’s Facebook page.

Crace will be in residence this fall at the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. He will give a public reading on December 6.

Piece of driftwood in Jim Crace’s archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.
Piece of driftwood in Jim Crace’s archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Arcadia, archive, Being Dead, Continent, ephermera, Jim Crace, Michener Center for Writers, Quarantine, Signals of Distress, The Pesthouse

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