Shena Mackay FRSL was born on 6 June 1944 and is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh.
12 Facts About Shena Mackay
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Shena Mackay was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland.
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Shena Mackay's writing career started with her winning a poetry competition in the Daily Mirror at the age of 16, while still at school.
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The antique shop was owned by the parents of art critic David Sylvester, with whom Mackay had her daughter Cecily.
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Shena Mackay's first publication, in 1964, was a volume of two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger and Toddler on the Run.
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Shena Mackay won the Fawcett Society Fiction Prize in 1986 for her novel Redhill Rococo and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for her 1991 novel, Dunedin.
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Shena Mackay has been described as "a skilled observer of the British class system and its discontents", receiving praise for her short stories as well as her novels.
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Shena Mackay has the knack of taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary.
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Shena Mackay is good on loneliness and pain, but on the moments of beauty and kindness which shine a sudden light on desolate lives.
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Shena Mackay was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, and was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at Middlesex University.
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Shena Mackay married Robin Brown in 1966 and they brought up her three daughters, Sarah Clark, Rebecca Smith and painter Cecily Brown.
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Shena Mackay's daughter Cecily was not told that Sylvester was her father until she was an adult.