Candia McWilliam
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Candia McWilliam (born July 1, 1955, Edinburgh) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.
McWilliam was educated at Girton College, Cambridge. Her first novel, A Case of Knives from 1988, was joint winner of the Betty Trask Prize[1]. Her second novel, A Little Stranger, was published in 1989. Both books won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards [2]. Debatable Land from 1994 won the Guardian Fiction Prize [3] and the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year.
Candia McWilliam was one of the judges of the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
