Alan Warner

Alan Warner is a Scottish novelist who grew up in Connel, near Oban. Warner is best known for Morvern Callar (1995), which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and The Sopranos (1998), which won the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year Award, with its sequel The Stars in the Bright Sky (2010) following. Morvern Callar and The Sopranos were both made into films, and The Sopranos was also adapted for the stage. The novel These Demented Lands (1997) won the Encore Award.