Linda Grant is a writer whose novel When I Lived in Modern Times won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000. Her latest (non-fiction) book, The People on the Street: A Writer’s View of Israel (Virago, 2006), is shortlisted for the 2006 Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage.

Recent articles

Whatever their backgrounds, newcomers to Britain have more in common than they might think. Linda Grant reflects on family history and real-life experiences.

Linda Grant went to Tel Aviv in 2003 intending to write a novel, instead her visit produced a work of another kind – observations from a troubled land of the "people on the street", and the discovery of an Israel of many aliases.

A boycott of Israeli writers is repressive, regressive and unworkable cultural policing, says Linda Grant.