In 2000, MacLeod's two books of short stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986), were re-published in the volume Island: The Collected Stories. The novel also won several literary prizes including the 2001 International Dublin Literary Award. Īlthough he is known as a master of the short story, MacLeod's 1999 novel No Great Mischief was voted Atlantic Canada's greatest book of all time. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an oral tradition. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present. No Great Mischief, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other StoriesĪlistair MacLeod, OC FRSC (J– April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. Francis Xavier University, University of Notre Dame
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