Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the

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, and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at Otago. He is the son of

William McIlvanney William McIlvanney (25 November 1936 – 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was known as Gus by friends and acquaintances. McIlvanney was a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works ''Laidlaw'', ' ...

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 *

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for Best New Zealand Crime Novel (2014) * McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year (2018)

References

External links

Author's website

Living people Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Scottish mystery writers University of Otago faculty Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Scottish novelists 21st-century British male writers Scottish male novelists {{NewZealand-writer-stub