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Liam McIlvanney

リーヤム・マキルヴァニー

Riamu Makiruvanī

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
Scotland
Nationality
Scottish, New Zealander
Languages
English
Residence History
Scotland → New Zealand

Career

Occupations
crime fiction writer, academic
Active Years
2002-
Affiliations
University of Otago
Influenced By
William McIlvanney
Influenced
Majella Cullinane

Awards

The Saltire First Book Award
2002
Work: Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Organization: Saltire Society
Result: 受賞
Ngaio Marsh Award
2014
Work: Where the Dead Men Go
Category: 最優秀ニュージーランド犯罪小説
Result: 受賞
McIlvanney Prize
2018
Work: The Quaker
Category: スコットランド年間最優秀犯罪小説
Organization: Bloody Scotland
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland

2002 Nonfiction

All the Colours of the Town

2009 Crime fiction

Where the Dead Men Go

2013 Crime fiction

The Quaker

2018 Crime fiction

The Heretic

2022 Crime fiction

The Good Father

2025 Crime fiction

Bibliography

  • Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland
  • All the Colours of the Town
  • Where the Dead Men Go
  • The Quaker
  • The Heretic
  • The Good Father

Legacy

Scottish–New Zealand writer and academic at the University of Otago, inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies. Son of William McIlvanney.

Trivia

  • Son of William McIlvanney.