Anne Donovan is the author of the short-story collection Hieroglyphics and the novels Buddha Da, Being Emily and Gone Are The Leaves, all published by Canongate. Her short story ‘All That Glisters’ won the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition and her stories have also appeared in various anthologies, including Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21 Revolutions.

Buddha Da was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It received a Scottish Arts Council Award and won the Le Prince Maurice Award in Mauritius in 2004.

Much of her work is set in Glasgow and uses Glaswegian voices. Her most recent novel, Gone Are The Leaves, is set in mediaeval times and is written mainly in a different form of Scots.