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Jon McGregor


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Jon McGregor was born in Bermuda in 1976.

He moved with his family to England and spent his childhood in Norwich and Thetford, Norfolk, later studying at Bradford University for a degree in Media Technology and Production. He started writing seriously during his final year at University, contributing a series entitled 'Cinema 100' to the anthology Five Uneasy Pieces (Pulp Faction). He has had short fiction published by several magazines, including Granta magazine. He has been runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Competition twice, in 2010 and 2011.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Pity (2024)
Andrew McMillan
"We already knew that Andrew McMillan could turn a phrase. With his debut novel, he also shows us a rare gift for storytelling. Pity digs deep into the heart and history of South Yorkshire and brings out the black gold of love, longing and loss. A triumph."
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We Move (2022)
Gurnaik Johal
"These are excellent stories, told with skill and verve. Gurnaik Johal has a sharp eye for details, an ear for the gaps and evasions in real dialogue, and a heart for the hopes and regrets that carry us through our lives. But most of all, he has the instincts of a storyteller, and in We Move he has put those instincts to great effect."
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The Great Mistake (2021)
Jonathan Lee
"A wonderful, compelling, finely-tuned and deeply loveable novel, with a central character who is all of those things too. Jonathan Lee has taken the bare facts of a nearly-forgotten life and turned them into a rich and unforgettable story, told with a relish for language and voice. Mr. Andrew Haswell Green now has permanent lodgings in my brain, and very welcome he is too."

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Anthologies containing stories by Jon McGregor
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Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass
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The Best British Short Stories 2012 (2012)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle
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One For The Trouble (2011)
Book Slam 1
edited by
Patrick Neate

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Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel winner (2003) : If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2006) : So Many Ways to Begin
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel winner (2012) : Even the Dogs
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2017) : Reservoir 13
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book nominee (2017) : Reservoir 13
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book nominee (2018) : Reservoir 13
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Book nominee (2019) : Reservoir 13


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