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349- ] English Literature - Jon McGregor

349-] English Literature

Jon McGregor


 Jon McGregor is the author of the critically acclaimed If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham. Even the Dogs, published by Bloomsbury in February 2010 and in paperback in February 2011, is his third novel.

This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, published by Bloomsbury in February 2012, is the fourth novel from Jon McGregor, which tells the tales of the sorts of things you don’t imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do

Jon McGregor is a British author who has written three novels. His first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize and was the winner of both the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003. So Many Ways to Begin was published in 2006 and was on the Booker prize long list. Even the Dogs was published in 2010, and his newest work, Reservoir 13, was published in April 2017.

Jon McGregor is the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Book Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and has been long-listed three times for the Man Booker Prize, most recently for his last novel, Reservoir 13. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Nottingham, England, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. 

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351- ] English Literature - Jon McGregor

351- ] English Literature Jon McGregor  So Many Ways to Begin (2006) Jon McGregor Bibliography McGREGOR Jon [1976-] Novelist. Born in B...