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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'.

Series

Sopranos
1. The Sopranos (1998)
2. The Stars in the Bright Sky (2010)

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)

Series contributed to

Elsewhere (with Theresa Breslin, Karen Campbell, Anne Fine, Debi Gliori, Alasdair Gray, A L Kennedy, William McIlvanney, Ali Smith, Miguel Syjuco and Yiyun Li)
1. Here (2012)

Awards

	International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Morvern Callar
	Saltire Literary Awards Best Book winner (1998) : The Sopranos
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2010) : The Stars in the Bright Sky
	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2012) : The Deadman's Pedal

Alan Warner recommends

The People's Act of Love (2001)
James Meek
"Comparable with Kafka, with Moorcock and with the Russian classics, James Meek has done something unique. I know I've found my novel of the year."

Who Sleeps with Katz (2003)
Todd McEwen
"A laugh-aloud and bittersweet threnody... an exquisite Joycean prayer to the daily Gods of New York."

The Swing of Things (2004)
Sean O'Reilly
"One of the very finest contemporary writers."

Repeat It Today With Tears (2010)
Anne Peile
"Anne Peile has built a startling and elegant little world."

Narcopolis (2012)
Jeet Thayil
"Completely fascinating and told with a feverish and furious necessity."

Fallow (2016)
Daniel Shand
"A brilliant, unpredictable road novel."

That Was a Shiver (2017)
James Kelman
"Kelman brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can."

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