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Liam McIlvanney

Liam McIlvanney

Scottish–New Zealand writer and academic

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

References

  1. [1]
    "Professor Liam McIlvanney". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Chair in Scottish studies at Otago". NZ Herald. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  3. [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. [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. [5]
    "The Heretic". HarperCollins. 2022.


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