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Name
  
Shena Mackay

Role
  
Novelist

Children
  

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Nominations
  
Man Booker Prize, Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story

Books
  
The Orchard on Fire, Heligoland, The Atmospheric Railway, Redhill rococo, Music upstairs

Shena Mackay - Writers in Conversation


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.

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Biography

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After the war her family moved to Hampstead, London, and eventually settled in Shoreham in Kent from where she attended Tonbridge Grammar School. Her writing career started with her winning a poetry competition in the Daily Mirror at the age of 16. After leaving school her first publication was a volume of two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger/Toddler on the Run the following year.

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She holds a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature and is also Honorary Visiting Professor at Middlesex University. In an interview with The Telegraph in 2004 Shena explained that she is synaesthetic and "sees words as colours", her own name is yellow.

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She is the mother of Sarah Clark, Rebecca Smith and painter Cecily Brown and as of 2008 lives in Southampton. She is in favour of an independent Scotland.

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 (2008)
  • Dancing on the Outskirts: selected stories (2015)
  • 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

    Shena Mackay Wikipedia