Biography
Short version
Malachy Tallack is the award-winning author of four books, most recently Illuminated by Water, which was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing in 2022. His novel, The Valley at the Centre of the World was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. His first book, Sixty Degrees North, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and his second, The Un-Discovered Islands, was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Malachy is from Shetland, and currently lives in Fife.
Long version
Malachy Tallack is an award-winning author. His most recent books are a fishing memoir, Illuminated by Water (Doubleday, 2022), and a novel, The Valley at the Centre of the World (Canongate, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. His first book, Sixty Degrees North (Polygon, 2015), was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award. His second, The Un-Discovered Islands (Polygon, 2016), was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Malachy has written essays and articles on a variety of subjects, including politics, literature, landscape and agriculture. These articles, essays and reviews have been published widely. He received a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015. As a singer-songwriter, Malachy has released four albums and an EP, and has performed in venues across the UK. He is from Shetland, and currently lives in Fife.
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