Graeme Macrae Burnet
Scottish author · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1967 · age 59
Graeme Macrae Burnet is a Scottish writer. He writes literary crime novels, often with a metafictional framework. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013.
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His second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. In 2017, he won the Author of the Year category in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards. His novel Case Study (2021) was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2026, his novel Benbecula was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.
