Author Candia McWilliam at the Boswell Book Festival Dumfries House, East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. Gives a talk in the Tapestry Room
Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1955 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge. She won a Vogue writing competition and worked for the magazine between 1976 and 1979. Her first novel, A Case of Knives (1988), was joint winner of the Betty Trask Prize. It was followed in 1989 by A Little Stranger, a disturbing tale of domestic life. Both books won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards. Debatable Land (1994) won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year. Wait till I Tell You (1997) is a collection of short stories. She has also written introductions to editions of Elizabeth Taylor’s A Wreath of Roses (1994), Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince (1999), Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (2000), and Henry James’s The Golden Bowl (2001), as well as to works by Elizabeth Bowen. She has been for many years a regular reviewer for newspapers and literary magazines. In 2006 she was part of the Man Booker Prize panel. Her latest book is What to Look for in Winter (2010), a lengthy memoir of her family life and development as a writer, detailing her struggles to overcome alcoholism and more recently blindness due to the onset of blepharospasm, a rare condition affecting the eyelids.
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Location: Dumfries House, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
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