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Alexander MacLeod

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Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Alexander MacLeod is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The son of noted Canadian novelist and short story writer Alistair MacLeod, he was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where his father taught at the University of Windsor. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at Saint Mary's University.

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Books by Alexander MacLeod

Average rating: 3.90 · 274 ratings · 65 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Light Lifting 3.92 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Journey Prize Stories 23 by Alexander MacLeod (Compiler), Alison Pick (Compiler), Sarah Selecky (Compiler) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Which book should win this year's Giller Prize?

Light Lifting by Alexander Macleod

3 votes, 50.0%

Matter With Morris by David Bergen

2 votes, 33.3%

This Cake is for the Party: Stories by Sarah Selecky

1 vote, 16.7%

The Sentimentalists by Johanna Shively

0 votes, 0.0%

Annabel by Kathleen Winter

0 votes, 0.0%

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