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Alan Warner


Scotland (b.1964)

Scottish novelist Alan Warner was born in 1964. Together with Irvine Welsh and A L Kennedy he is seen by many critics as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Scottish literature.

He is the author of five novels: the acclaimed Morvern Callar (1995), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; These Demented Lands (1997), winner of the Encore Award; The Sopranos (1998), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award; The Man Who Walks (2002), an imaginative and surreal black comedy; and The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven (2006). Morvern Callar has been adapted as a film, and The Sopranos is to follow shortly. His short story 'After the Vision' was included in the anthology Children of Albion Rovers (1997) and 'Bitter Salvage' was included in the Disco Biscuits (1997).

Alan Warner lives in County Wicklow in Ireland. In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.
 

Awards: James Tait Black (2012), Saltire (1998), RSL (1998)  see all

Genres: Historical Mystery, Literary Fiction
 
Series
Sopranos
   1. The Sopranos (1998)
   2. The Stars in the Bright Sky (2010)
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Novels
   Morvern Callar (1995)
   These Demented Lands (1997)
   The Man Who Walks (2002)
   The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven (2006)
   The Deadman's Pedal (2012)
   Their Lips Talk of Mischief (2014)
   Our Ladies (2020)
   Marko Sent Me North (2020)
   Kitchenly 434 (2021)
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Series contributed to
Elsewhere
   1. Here (2012) (with others)
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Omnibus editions show
 
Books containing stories by Alan Warner
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Children of Albion Rovers (1997)
An Anthology of New Scottish Writing
edited by
Kevin Williamson

Awards
2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : The Deadman's Pedal
2003 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
1998 Saltire Literary Award : The Sopranos
1998 Encore Award : These Demented Lands

Award nominations
2010 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Stars in the Bright Sky
1997 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Morvern Callar


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That Was a Shiver (2017)
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Fallow (2016)
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