Candia McWilliam
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Candia McWilliam (born July 1, 1955, Edinburgh) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.
McWilliam was educated at Girton College, Cambridge. Her first novel, A Case of Knives from 1988, was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize in 1988.[1]. Her second novel, A Little Stranger, was published in 1989. Both books won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards [2]. Debatable Land from 1994 won the Guardian Fiction Prize [3] and the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year.
Candia McWilliam was one of the judges of the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
In early 2006, McWilliam began to suffer from the effects of bletherospasm and has since become severely visually impaired as a result. She has spoken about the experience of blindness at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, as well as writing on her situation for the Scottish Review of Books.
