Margaret Elphinstone

Margaret Elphinstone ( born 1948 in Kent, England ) is a Scottish writer.

Life

Margaret Elphinstone was born in Kent. She attended Queen's College in London and the University of Durham. The author teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow the subjects English Literature and Creative Writing. Your academic research are Scottish women writers and the literature of Scotland offshore islands.

Extensive study trips Margaret Elphinstone to Iceland, Greenland, Labrador and in the United States. She lived eight years in the Shetland Islands and is the mother of two children.

Before 2003, the author received her professorship in Glasgow, she worked at various places in a variety of jobs. Some of these works they suggested to publications:

  • Islanders based on their participation in archaeological excavations on the Shetland island of Papa Stour.
  • Two garden books were created by her work as a teacher in Galloway.
  • Voyageurs emerged after spending a year at Central Michigan University and by canoe adventures on the Ottawa.

Works

Prices

For Islanders

For The Sea Road

For Hy Brasil

For Voyageurs

  • 2000 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary

Swell

  • Website by Margaret Elphinstone
  • Margaret Elphinstone in booksfromscotland.com
  • Margaret Elphinstone in Contemporary Writers in the UK
  • Scottish Arts Council
  • Margaret Elphinstone: Upstream. List Verlag 2006, pp. 2, below. 522 pages, ISBN 3-548-60636-9
  • Writer (Glasgow )
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Novel, epic
  • University teachers (Glasgow )
  • Briton
  • Born in 1948
  • Woman
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