Name Margaret Elphinstone | Role Novelist | |
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Education Queen's College, London, Durham University Books The sea road, Voyageurs, The Gathering Night, Hy Brasil, A Sparrow's Flight | ||
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Margaret Elphinstone (born 1948 in Kent, England) is a Scottish novelist.
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Biography
Margaret Elphinstone was born in Kent. She studied at Queen's College in London and Durham University. She was until recently, Professor of Writing in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, now retired. Her academic research areas are Scottish writers and the literature of Scotland's offshore islands.
She did extensive study tours in Iceland, Greenland, Labrador and the United States. She lived for eight years in the Shetland Islands and is the mother of two children.
Before becoming professor in Glasgow in 2003, she worked at a variety of jobs in different locations. Some of her experiences were later used in her books:
Prizes
for The Sea Road
for Hy Brasil
for Voyageurs