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Liam
McIlvanney

Liam McIlvanney was born in Scotland and studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. He has written for numerous publications, including the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. His first book, Burns the Radical (Tuckwell Press, 2002), won the Saltire First Book Award. He has also won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for Where the Dead Men Go (Faber, 2014) and the Bloody Sunday McIlvanney Prize for The Quaker (HarperCollins, 2018).

He is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Liam McIlvanney was born in Scotland and studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. He has written for numerous publications, including the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. His first book, Burns the Radical (Tuckwell Press, 2002), won the Saltire First Book Award. He has also won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for Where the Dead Men Go (Faber, 2014) and the Bloody Sunday McIlvanney Prize for The Quaker (HarperCollins, 2018).

He is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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