Alison MacLeod

Alison MacLeod is a Canadian-British writer.^[1][2][3] She is most noted for her 2013 novel Unexploded,^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]} which was a longlisted nominee for the 2013 Man Booker Prize,^[10][11] and her 2017 short story collection All the Beloved Ghosts,^{[12][13][14][15]} which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.^{[16][17][18][19]}

Background[]

Born in Montreal, Quebec of Nova Scotian parents and raised in Montreal and Halifax, Nova Scotia, she has lived in Brighton, England since 1987.^[20] MacLeod studied English literature at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax and later, completed her masters in creative writing and Ph.D at the University of Lancaster.^[21] She is published by Bloomsbury and Penguin Canada, and is a professor of contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester.^[22] She is a citizen of both Canada and the United Kingdom.

Awards[]

• 2016 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award^[23]
• 2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist for Unexploded, Hamish Hamilton
• 2011 BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist for The Heart of Dennis Noble^[24][25]

Selected bibliography[]

• The Changeling,^[26][27] 1996, ISBN 033362484X
• The Wave Theory of Angels,^[28] 2005, ISBN 024114261X
• Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction,^[29] 2007, ISBN 9780141016061
• Unexploded, 2013, ISBN 0241142636, ISBN 978-0241142639
• All the Beloved Ghosts, 2017, ISBN 9781408863787

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Alison MacLeod's top 10 stories about infidelity from The Guardian
• No Excess Baggage for The Sunday Times "Ahead of the naming of the winner of this year's EFG Private Bank award at the festival, Alison MacLeod considers what we can learn from the greatest short stories."