![]() ![]() This effort of a young man to redeem a mistake, perhaps a fault, in his literary life, deserves to be sealed with your name, for it is you who have repeatedly urged him to the task, and presided over it like a guardian angel, with kind and consoling words. To guard yon central oak, whose holy stem,Īs those presents are always the most fashionable, and sometimes the most valued, which cannot be used, I give you this book, which you will not be able to read, but which, perhaps, you will kindly preserve in memory of its writer.Īn author can pay no higher compliment to a friend than to dedicate to her a work upon which he has spent much labor and anxiety. We do adjure thee, with this trusty blade In the mysterious Zodiac's burning girth, (1861)īy the bright courses of the errant moon, No Great Mischief was also a finalist for the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street.The Veil of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids THE THE VEIL OF ISIS OR, MYSTERIES OF THE DRUIDS BY W. Award for Fiction, and at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, MacLeod won for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year. The novel won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, The Trillium Award for Fiction, the CAA-MOSAID Technologies Inc. In 1999, MacLeod’s first novel, No Great Mischief, was published to great critical acclaim, and was on national bestseller lists for more than a year. In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two new stories, were published in a single-volume edition entitled Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod. He has published two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman, and writes vividly and sympathetically about such work. ![]() He still spends his summers in Inverness County, writing in a clifftop cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island. Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. ![]()
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