Stuart Kelly (literary critic)

Stuart Kelly
OccupationLiterary critic and author
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Stuart Kelly is a Scottish critic and author. He is the literary editor of The Scotsman.[1]

His works include The Book Of Lost Books: An Incomplete Guide To All The Books You’ll Never Read (2005), Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented A Nation (2010) (which was longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction[2]) and The Minister and the Murderer (2018). Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland On Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. In 2013 Kelly was a judge for the Man Booker Prize.[3][4] In 2016/17 Kelly was president of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.[5]

Bibliography

  • The Book of Lost Books (2005)[6][7]
  • Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (2011)[8][9]
  • The Minister and the Murderer (2018) [10]

References

  1. ^ "Stuart Kelly". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023.
  2. ^ Flood, Alison (2011-04-15), "Biography dominates Samuel Johnson prize longlist", The Guardian.
  3. ^ The Man Booker Prize
  4. ^ Robinson, David (17 December 2012). "Scotsman's Stuart Kelly to join Booker Prize judges panel". The Scotsman.
  5. ^ "Stuart Kelly". The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  6. ^ Queenan, Joe (30 April 2006). "Treasure Hunt". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  7. ^ Simon, Scott (10 June 2006). "Recovering Literature's 'Lost Books'". NPR. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  8. ^ McVey, David (26 August 2010). "Scott-land: The Man Who Invented A Nation, By Stuart Kelly". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  9. ^ "Episode 1, Stuart Kelly - Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation". Book of the Week. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  10. ^ Morrison, Blake (25 January 2018). "The Minister and the Murderer by Stuart Kelly review – should a killer be allowed into the church?". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2021.


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