Shena Mackay
Shena Mackay (* 1944 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish writer .
Life
After the Second World War , her family moved with her from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Hampstead , England , a district of London . She attended primary school in Shoreham, Kent . At the age of 16, she won a writing competition for the English newspaper Daily Mirror . Just one year after graduating from school, her first book appeared, which contained the two novellas Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger / Toddler on the Run .
In 1964 she married Robin Brown. Her daughter, the painter Cecily Rose Brown , who was born in 1969, only found out from her at the age of 21 that the British art critic David Sylvester was her biological father.
She has been a member of the British Royal Society of Literature since 1999 and is also an honorary professor at Middlesex University . In an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph in 2004, she stated that she was a synesthetic and saw “words like colors”, her own name is yellow.
Mackay works for an independent Scotland.
Honors
Mackay was nominated for the British Man Booker Prize in 1996 for her work The Burning Orchard .
- 1987, Fawcett Society Book Prize for Redhill Rococo
- 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Prize for Dunedin
- 2003, nomination for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award for Heligoland
Works
- Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger / Toddler on the Run (1964)
- Music Upstairs (1965)
- Shard judgment , ( Old Crow , 1967), short story
- 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)
- The Laughing Academy (1993)
- Such Devoted Sisters: An Anthology of Stories (1993), (ed.)
- The burning orchard , ( The orchard on fire , 1995)
- Collected Short Stories (1994)
- Friendship: An Anthology (1997), (ed.)
- The widow of the artist ( The Artist's Widow , 1998), Roman
- The World's Smallest Unicorn and Other Stories (1999)
- Heligoland (2003)
- The Atmospheric Railway (2006)
Web links
- Literature by and about Shena Mackay in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ian Hamilton: Bohemian rhapsodist. In: The Guardian. July 10, 1999, accessed March 1, 2012 .
- ↑ Helen Brown: A writer's life: Shena Mackay. In: The Daily Telegraph. April 1, 2004, accessed March 1, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Reiner Luyken: Where every Briton is considered a traitor. In: Zeit-online. Die Zeit, October 19, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mackay, Shena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh , Scotland |