Liam McIlvanney

Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand,^[1] and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at the university.^[2] He is the son of William McIlvanney.^[3] Notable students include author Majella Cullinane.^[4]

McIlvanney in 2010

Works

Fiction

• All the Colours of the Town (2009)
• Where the Dead Men Go (2013)
• The Quaker (2018)
• The Heretic (2022)^[5]
• The Good Father (2025)^[6]

Nonfiction

• Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2002)

Awards

• The Saltire First Book Award
• Ngaio Marsh Award for Best New Zealand Crime Novel (2014)
• McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year (2018)^[3]