Stuart Kelly is a Scottish critic and author. He is the literary editor of ''

The Scotsman ''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its pa ...

''. 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

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) and ''The Minister and the Murderer'' (2018). Kelly writes for ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2013 Kelly was a judge for the

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. In 2016/17 Kelly was president of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.

Bibliography

* ''The Book of Lost Books'' (2005) * ''Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation'' (2011) * ''The Minister and the Murderer'' (2018)

References

External links

* Susan Haigh
"An interview with Stuart Kelly"
''Dundee Review of the Arts'', 2014-02-24. Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Scottish literary critics Scottish male writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub