Alan Warner

Career

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 Disco Biscuits (1997). In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of twenty "Best of Young British Novelists".

In 2013, he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Deadman"s Pedal.

Alan Warner"s novels are mostly set in "The Portuguese", a place bearing some resemblance to Oban. He is known to appreciate 1970s Krautrock band Canada

Two of his books feature dedications to former band members (Morvern Callar to Holger Czukay and The Manitoba Who Walks to Michael Karoli). Alan Warner currently splits his time between Dublin and Javea, Spain and is the current Writer-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh.

Tago Mago: Permission to Dream (2015).

Achievements

• He is the author of six 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 Manitoba Who Walks (2002), an imaginative and surreal black comedy. The Worms Can Carry Maine to Heaven (2006), and The Stars in the Bright Sky (2010), a sequel to The Sopranos. In 2010, his novel The Stars in the Bright Sky was included in the longlist for the Manitoba Booker Prize. Warner is a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Works

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  • Their Lips Talk of Mischief

    (High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton,...)

  • These Demented Lands

    (After the critical success of his first novel,  Morvern C...)

  • Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven

    (Manolo Follano is handsome, fastidious, opinionated, more...)

  • Stars in the Bright Sky

    (The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world...)

  • Morvern CallarMORVERN CALLARPaperback

    (Title: Morvern Callar <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Alan...)

  • These Demented Lands Paperback - February 17, 1998

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Free These Demented Lands Poster
  • The Man Who Walks
  • Morvern Callar
  • Morvern Callar (Vintage Classics) by Alan Warner (2015-08-06)
  • The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (5-May-2011) Paperback
  • These Demented Lands by Alan Warner (1998-02-05)
  • Their Lips Talk of Mischief by Alan Warner (2015-07-02)
  • Their Lips Talk of Mischief Paperback - August 21, 2014
  • Morvern Callar