Shena Mackay

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Shena Mackay FRSL (born 1944), is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire.

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[edit] Biography

Her writing career started with her winning a poetry competition in the Daily Mirror at age 16. Leaving school her first publication was a volume of two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger/Toddler on the Run the following year.

She holds a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature and is also Honorary Visiting Professor at Middlesex University.

[edit] Works

  • Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger/Toddler on the Run (1964)
  • Music Upstairs (1965)
  • Old Crow (1967)
  • An Advent Calendar (1971)
  • Babies in Rhinestones and Other Stories (1983)
  • A Bowl of Cherries (1984)
  • Redhill Rococo (1986)
  • Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags (1987)
  • Dunedin (1992)
  • Such Devoted Sisters: An Anthology of Stories (1993) (editor)
  • The Laughing Academy (1993)
  • Collected Short Stories (1994)
  • The Orchard on Fire (1995)
  • Friendship: An Anthology (1997) (editor)
  • The Artist's Widow (1998)
  • The World's Smallest Unicorn and Other Stories (1999)
  • Heligoland (2003)
  • The Atmospheric Railway (2006)

[edit] Awards and nominations

  • Fawcett Society Book Prize (1987) for Redhill Rococo
  • Scottish Arts Council Book Award (1994) for Dunedin
  • Booker Prize for Fiction (1996) (shortlist) for The Orchard on Fire
  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2003) (shortlist) for Heligoland
  • Whitbread Novel Award (2003) (shortlisted) for Heligoland

[edit] References

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