Jon McGregor

Catherine Pesso-Miquel (Université Lyon II)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 1976
Activity 2002-ongoing

Places

Born in Bermuda
Active in United Kingdom

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

McGregor's Works

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Jon McGregor was born in Bermuda in February 1976, but raised in Britain, first in Norwich, and after 1988 in Thetford, Norfolk, where he went to secondary school. Between 1994 and 1997 he studied media production at the University of Bradford, and wrote short stories. In 1999 he moved to Nottingham, where he made ends meet by doing a series of small part time jobs, while writing “a short collection of long stories”. His first novel,

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

, was published by Bloomsbury in 2002, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and in 2003 won the Betty Task Prize and the Somerset Maugham award.

In 2005 McGregor finished his second novel, So Many Ways to Begin, published in 2006 and also longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third novel, entitled Even the Dogs was published

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Citation: Pesso-Miquel, Catherine. "Jon McGregor". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 November 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13547, accessed 25 November 2024.]