Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSCwas a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. 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. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 July 1936
CountryCanada
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.
No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.