Liam McIlvanney

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McIlvanney in 2010

Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand, [1] and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at the university. [2] He is the son of William McIlvanney. [3] Notable students include author Majella Cullinane. [4]

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Career

In September 2025, McIlvanney was a guest on the Off the Shelf podcast as part of a feature on the McIlvanney Prize [5] .

Fiction

Nonfiction

Awards

References

  1. "Professor Liam McIlvanney". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. "Chair in Scottish studies at Otago". NZ Herald. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Liam McIlvanney wins Scottish crime fiction award named after his father". The Guardian. 21 September 2018. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  4. Cullinane, Majella (2020). The colours of that place: setting and memory in Irish short fiction (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/9888.
  5. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JxpvjtXDHLG5og66xlJSb?si=4340e99e75f04fc2
  6. "The Heretic". HarperCollins. 2022.
  7. White, Mike (15 June 2025). "The good writer: Liam McIlvanney's life of crime". The Sunday Star-Times . Retrieved 17 June 2025.