Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod ( born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian author, although in 2001 with the novel " land of trees " (No Great Mischief ) won the IMPAC prize and was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize but otherwise is better known for shorter works.

Life

To finance his education, MacLeod worked as lumberjacks, miners and fishermen. In the summer, he wrote short stories in a hut on the St- Lawrence River, in the winter he taught previously a professor of English literature at the University of Windsor. Although " land of trees " known price IMPAC prize won, the quality of the longer works MacLeod's lack of power is controversial, Hellmuth Karasek as did the slowly told the novel as a " Canadian Roseggerhaus " to " Reader's Digest - level " ex. As a collection of short stories is "The Island" the best known.