Margaret Elphinstone
Margaret Elphinstone (born 1948 in the county of Kent, England) is a Scottish novelist.
Biography
Margaret Elphinstone was born in Kent. She attended Queen's College in London and the Durham University. The author teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow the subjects English literature and Creative writing. Your academic research areas are Scottish writers and literature of Scotland offshore islands.
Extensive study tours led by Margaret Elphinstone Iceland, Greenland, Labrador and the United States. She lived eight years in the Shetland Islands and is the mother of two children.
Before the author of 2003 professorship in Glasgow received, she was at various places in a variety of jobs. Some of this work suggested it to publications:
- Islanders based on their participation in archaeological excavations on the Shetland island of Papa Stour.
- Two garden books emerged after her work as a gardener in Galloway.
- Voyageurs arose after a one-year stay at Central Michigan University and canoeing adventures on the Ottawa River.
Bibliography
- 1985 "Spinning the Green", short story
- 1987 The Incomer or Clachanpluck, novel. ISBN 0704340704
- 1989 A Sparrow's Flight, novel. ISBN 0748660259
- 1991 An Apple from a tree, short stories. ISBN 0704342812
- 1994 Islanders, novel. ISBN 0748661786
- 2000 The Sea Road, novel. (Ger 2001: Der Weg nach Vinland)
- 2002 Hy Brasil, novel. (Ger 2004: Inselnotizen)
- 2003 Voyageurs, novel. (Ger 2006: Stromaufwärts)
- 2006 Light, novel. ISBN 978-1-84195-805-7
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She won for Islanders
- 1990 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary
- 1991 Scottish Arts Council Travel Award
for The Sea Road
- 1993 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary
- 1994 Scottish Arts Council Travel Award
- 2001 Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award
for Hy Brasil
- 1997 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary
for Voyageurs
- 2000 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary
External links
- Website of Margaret Elphinstone
- Margaret Elphinstone in booksfromscotland.com
- Margaret Elphinstone in Contemporary Writers in the UK
- Science fiction (German)
- Scottish Arts Council
- Margaret Elphinstone: Stromaufwärts. List Verlag 2006, p. 2 below. 522 pp., ISBN 3-548-60636-9