A.L. Kennedy is the author of the story collections “Original Bliss,” “Indelible Acts,” “Now That You’re Back,” “Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains” and the forthcoming “What Becomes” (Knopf, April 2010), from which “Another” is excerpted.
Her novels include “Day,” “Everything You Need,” “So I Am Glad,” “Paradise” and “Looking for the Possible Dance.”
“Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains” won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.
“Day” won a Saltire Award, the Costa Prize, the Eifel Literaturpreis and the Austrian State Prize For International Literature. The New York Review of Books caled “Day” “a novel of extraordinary complexity,” and New York magazine chose it as one of the top 10 novels of 2007.
She has twice been chosen one of Granta’s best young British novelists, and in 2007, won a Lannan Literary Award.
Kennedy lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at the University of St. Andrews.
Visit her online at www.a-l-kennedy.co.uk.
