Candia McWilliam

Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author known for her novels A Case of Knives (1988, Betty Trask Prize), A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994, Guardian Fiction Prize), and her memoir What to Look for in Winter (2010, Hawthornden Prize). Educated at Girton College, Cambridge, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1994 and served as a judge for the 2006 Man Booker Prize; she experienced temporary blindness due to blepharospasm from 2006-2009. T.S. Eliot Prize