Jon McGregor

Early life Born in Bermuda, McGregor was raised in the UK. and then studied for a degree in Media Technology and Production at Bradford University. In his final year there he contributed a series entitled "Cinema 100" to the anthology Five Uneasy Pieces (Pulp Faction).

Career Having moved to Nottingham (where he now lives), he wrote his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, while living on a narrowboat. It was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize, making its author the youngest contender and only first novelist on the longlist. McGregor was only 26 at the time.

The International Dublin Literary Award was a competition among 147 writers nominated by international public libraries, including Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan. McGregor received a prize of €100,000. The prize's judging panel, which included the British novelist Tim Parks and the Trinidadian writer Elizabeth Nunez, described Even the Dogs, a novel detailing the highs and lows of drug addiction, as a "fearless experiment". McGregor described it as "a real honour to have been selected from such a huge list of fantastic works from around the world." He was the first British writer to win the award since Nicola Barker in 2000.

Works

Novels If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury, 2002) So Many Ways to Begin (Bloomsbury, 2006) Even the Dogs (Bloomsbury, 2010) Reservoir 13 (HarperCollins, 2017) Lean Fall Stand (HarperCollins, 2021)

Short story collections This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You (Bloomsbury, 2012) The Reservoir Tapes (2017)

Awards

Honors

2010: Honorary Doctorate, University of Nottingham

Awards Year Title Award Category Result Ref.2002If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable ThingsCommonwealth Writers PrizeEurasia Region, First Book Booker Prize— 2003 Betty Trask Prize and Awards Betty Trask Prize Somerset Maugham Award — Waverton Good Read Award — 2006 So Many Ways to Begin Booker Prize — 2010 "If it Keeps on Raining" BBC National Short Story Award — 2011 "Wires" BBC National Short Story Award — 2012 Even the Dogs International Dublin Literary Award — This Isn't the Sort of Thing... Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award — 2017 Reservoir 13 Booker Prize — Costa Book Awards Novel Goldsmiths Prize — 2018 British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year The Writers' Prize — 2019 International Dublin Literary Award —