Liam McIlvanney

Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand,^[1] and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at the university.^[2] He is the son of William McIlvanney.^[3] Notable students include author Majella Cullinane.^[4]

Works

Fiction

• All the Colours of the Town (2009)
• Where the Dead Men Go (2013)
• The Quaker (2018)
• The Heretic (2022) ^[5]

Nonfiction

• Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2002)

Awards

• The Saltire First Book Award
• Ngaio Marsh Award for Best New Zealand Crime Novel (2014)
• McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year (2018)^[3]

References

1. "Professor Liam McIlvanney". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
2. "Chair in Scottish studies at Otago". NZ Herald. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
3. "Liam McIlvanney wins Scottish crime fiction award named after his father". The Guardian. 21 September 2018. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
4. Cullinane, Majella (2020). The colours of that place: setting and memory in Irish short fiction (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/9888.
5. "The Heretic". HarperCollins. 2022.

External links

• Author's website
• Author's page at Otago University