In 1986 her novel Redhill Rococo won the Fawcett Prize and she has received Scottish Arts Council Book Awards for the novel Dunedin and The Laughing Academy (stories), and a Society of Authors Travelling award. Winning a prize in the BBC Radio3/ Listener magazine short story competition in the early 1980s inspired her to write more stories and led to the publication of her first collection Babies in Rhinestones. One of those stories, The Most Beautiful Dress in the World was filmed for the BBC Bookmark programme. Since then she has published nine novels and five collections of short stories and edited two anthologies. They were Dust falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run, which was made into a BBC Wednesday Play. Her first two novellas, written in her teens, were published to acclaim in 1964. A prize in the Daily Mirror Children’s Literary Competition for a poem she wrote when she was fourteen was a great encouragement. Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944 (on D Day – 6 June).
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