Liam McIlvanney explained

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)

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Liam McIlvanney . 28 March 2020 . www.otago.ac.nz . en-nz.
2. Web site: Chair in Scottish studies at Otago. 30 November 2006. NZ Herald. 8 June 2019.
3. News: Liam McIlvanney wins Scottish crime fiction award named after his father. 2018-09-21. The Guardian. 2019-06-08. en-GB. 0261-3077.
4. Cullinane . Majella . 2020 . Doctoral thesis . The colours of that place: setting and memory in Irish short fiction . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/9888.
5. Web site: The Heretic . HarperCollins . 2022.