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Brian McCabe

Brian McCabe


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Biography

Brian McCabe grew up near Edinburgh and studied Philosophy and English Literature at Edinburgh University. He has been a full-time writer since 1980.

 

He has published several poetry collections, including One Atom to Another (1987) and Body Parts (1999), three short story collections: The Lipstick Circus (1985); In a Dark Room with a Stranger (1993); and A Date with my Wife (2001), as well as a Selected Stories (2003).

 

His novel, The Other McCoy, was published in 1990.

 

Brian McCabe has held various writing fellowships, including the Novelist in Residence post at St. Andrew's University. He was the Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow from 1988-89, and most recently, has held Writer in Residence posts at Perth and Kinross Council and Edinburgh University. He won the Canongate Prize in 2000.

 

 

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Fiction, Poetry

 

 

Bibliography

Goodbye Schooltie   Tara Telephone Publications, 1972

Spring's Witch   Mariscat, 1984

The Lipstick Circus   Mainstream, 1985

One Atom to Another   Polygon, 1987

The Other McCoy   Mainstream, 1990

In a Dark Room with a Stranger   Hamish Hamilton, 1993

Not Donald MacDonald   (illustrated by John McNaught)   Highland Printmakers Workshop and Gallery, 1996

Body Parts   Canongate, 1999

A Date with my Wife   Canongate, 2001

Selected Stories   Argyll Publishing, 2003

 

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Prizes and awards

2000   Canongate Prize

 

 

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries)
Canongate Books Ltd
14 High Street
Edinburgh  EH1 1TE
Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)131 557 5111
Fax: +44 (0)131 557 5211
E-mail: customerservices@canongate.co.uk
www.canongate.net

Agent
Curtis Brown Group Ltd
Haymarket House
28-29 Haymarket
London  SW1Y 4SP
England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 4400
Fax: +44 (0)20 7393 4401
E-mail: info@curtisbrown.co.uk
http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk

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Related links

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http:/ / www.crossingborders-africanwriting.org/

 

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