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Candia McWilliam is a Scottish writer and novelist. She was born on 1 July 1955 in Scotland. She is the daughter of the late Sir William McWilliam, a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh. McWilliam studied English at the University of Edinburgh and graduated in 1977. She then went on to study at the University of East Anglia, where she completed a Masters in Creative Writing in 1979. McWilliam has written several novels, including A Case of Knives (1988), Debatable Land (1992), and A Little Stranger (1996). She has also written several short stories, including "The Last of the Mohicans" (1989) and "The White Bird" (1991). McWilliam has been awarded several literary awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award for A Case of Knives in 1988, the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award for Debatable Land in 1992, and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for A Little Stranger in 1996. McWilliam is currently living in Edinburgh with her husband and two children. Her net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Occupation Writer
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 1 July, 1955
Birthday 1 July
Birthplace Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality Scottish

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2014

In an article in The Sunday Times, McWilliam described her two years of blindness and the pioneering surgery that restored her sight. She went blind, she added, after years of writer's block — her last novel appeared in 1994 — but she refound her voice while she was blind and dictated to a kind young friend what turned out to be a memoir, What to Look for in Winter, which was published in 2010. She is now at work on a novel.

2010

McWilliam's first marriage to Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, produced a daughter and a son, Viscount Lymington, but ended in divorce. Her second marriage to Fram Dinshaw resulted in another son. She lived briefly with the Labour MP Mark Fisher.

2004

In 2004 McWilliam admitted to an audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that she had struggled with alcoholism. In early 2006, McWilliam began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became severely visually impaired as a result. This illness caused her eyelids to be permanently shut, although her eyes were still perfect. In 2007 she spoke about the experience of blindness at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and in 2008 she wrote an article about her situation for the Scottish Review of Books. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to suspend her eyelids open, thus curing her blindness.

1994

Debatable Land, published in 1994, won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and in 1998 its Italian translation won the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year. McWilliam was a judge of the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

1988

Born in Edinburgh, McWilliam was educated at St George's School for Girls in the city and Girton College, Cambridge, where she obtained first class honours. Her first novel, A Case of Knives, published in 1988, was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize. Her second novel, A Little Stranger, was published in 1989. Both books won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards.

1955

Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.