Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago,[1] New Zealand, and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at Otago.[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. 1 2 "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.


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