Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, more commonly known as Mollie Hunter (born 1922), is a Scottish

Scotland

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 writer

Writer

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. Born and bred near Edinburgh in the small village of Longniddry. She currently resides in Inverness. Her debut was The Smartest Man in Ireland in 1963

1963 in literature

The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill . The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.*Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories...

. She writes fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 for children, historical stories

Historical fiction

Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...

 for young adults and realistic novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s for adults. She won the Carnegie Medal

Carnegie Medal

The Carnegie Medal is a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. It is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...

 in 1974 for The Stronghold

The Stronghold

The Stronghold is a children's historical novel by Mollie Hunter, set in Orkney in the 1st century BC. It is an imaginative reconstruction of the circumstances leading to the building of the first of the brochs, the circular strongholds which dot the islands...

. She also wrote the book A Stranger Came Ashore

A Stranger Came Ashore

A Stranger Came Ashore is a 1975 young adult novel written by Scottish author Mollie Hunter. The plot revolves around a boy called Robbie Henderson, a resident on the island of Black Ness, where there are legends of creatures called Selkies, which are seals that can take on human form...

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Novels

• Patrick Kentigern Keenan (1963)
• The Smartest Man in Ireland (1963)
• The Spanish Letters (1964)
• The Kelpie's Pearls (1964)
• A Pistol in Greenyards (1965)
• The Ghosts of Glencoe (1966)
• Thomas and the Warlock (1967)
• Ferlie (1968)
• The Walking Stones (1970) aka Bodach
• The Third resistance (1971)
• The Lothian Run (1971)
• The Thirteenth Member (1971)
• The Haunted Mountain (1972)
• A Sound of Chariots (1972)
• The Stronghold (1974)
• A Stranger Came Ashore (1975)
• The Wicked One (1977)
• The Third Eye (1979)
• You Never Knew Her as I Did! (1981)
• The Dragonfly Years (1983)
• Hold on to Love (1984)
• The Enchanted Whistle (1985)
• I'll Go My Own Way (1985)
• Cat, Herself (1986)
• The MidSummer murders(1988)
• The King's Swift Rider (1998)
• Escape from Loch Leven (2003)

Plays

• Stay for an Answer (1962)
• The Captain
• A Love-song For My Lady
• The Walking Stones

Picture Books

• Hi Johnny (1963)
• The Brownie (1986)
• The Enchanted Boy (1986)
• Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie (1988)
• Gilly Martin the Fox (1994)

Non fiction

• Talent Is Not Enough (1976)
• The Pied Piper Syndrome and Other Essays (1992)