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Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand, and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at the university. He is the son of William McIlvanney. Notable students include author Majella Cullinane.

Works

Fiction

• All the Colours of the Town (2009)
• Where the Dead Men Go (2013)
• The Quaker (2018)
• The Heretic (2022)

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)

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. ^ "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.

External links

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

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