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Candia McWilliam

(b.1955)

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1955 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge. She won a Vogue writing competition in 1971 and worked for the magazine between 1976 and 1979.

Awards: SoA (1988) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   A Case of Knives (1987)
   A Little Stranger (1989)
   Debatable Land (1994)

Collections

Ten (1996) (with others)
Wait Till I Tell You (1997)

Anthologies edited

Shorts II (1999)

Series contributed to

Bloomsbury Birthday Quids
Change of Use (1996)

Non fiction show

Awards

	1994 Guardian Fiction Prize : Debatable Land
	1993 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
	1988 Betty Trask Prize : A Case of Knives

Candia McWilliam recommends

Pet (2023)
Catherine Chidgey
"Catherine Chidgey in Pet mobilises the misgivings shared by all children who love and lose: the fear of being odd, the longing to be special, the horror of being supplanted. This is a novel hard not to swallow [entirely] in one go, by when the reader will be full of hooks and wary as an old pike."

Forspoken (1998)
Ajay Close
"Ajay Close...is a natural writer with a rare gift. Glasgow has a magnificent addition to its pantheon of fine writers."

Storm in the Citadel (1989)
Kate Saunders
"Kate Saunders has a very funny line on the farce of sex."

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