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Shena Mackay

British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1944 · age 82

Shena Mackay FRSL is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland.

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Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1999

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1944 · age 82