6/28/2023 0 Comments Heligoland shena mackay![]() ![]() She has three daughters, Sarah Clark, a teacher, Rebecca Smith, a writer, and Cecily Brown, a painter, and five grandchildren. Her latest book, Dancing on the Outskirts, Selected Stories(Virago) was published in November 2015. ![]() Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003 Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Photograph from The Guardian by: Katherine RoseĬarol Burns organises the Writers in Conversation events and was the host for the evening. ![]()
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