Shena Mackay

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".

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.

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)

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"

References

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