Being Dead

Jim Crace is a British novelist born in Hertfordshire in 1946, known for fiction of exceptional originality that often takes place in unnamed, imagined landscapes or in the deep past. He is the author of Continent (1986), The Gift of Stones (1988), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), The Devil's Larder (2001), Six (2003), The Pesthouse (2007), and Harvest (2013). Harvest, a novel set in an unnamed pre-industrial English village at the moment of the Enclosure Acts, won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Read more →