* Alistair MacLeod, author.

Alistair MacLeod, OC ( born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan ) is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.

* Reading Alistair MacLeod at NFB. ca.

* Alistair MacLeod at the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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Juried by Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, and Jane Urquhart.

Juried by M. G. Vassanji, Alistair MacLeod, and Charlotte Gray.

Juried by Russell Banks, Victoria Glendinning, and Alistair MacLeod.

* Alistair MacLeod won the 2001 IMPAC Award for No Great Mischief and Rawi Hage won it in 2008 for De Niro's Game.

* IMPAC Award: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod.

* Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

* 2006 Alistair MacLeod Award for Literary Achievement

* Alistair MacLeod: author

* Trillium Book Award English: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

* Island: Alistair MacLeod

* Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

* Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer

* Alistair MacLeod ( born 1936 ), Canadian author

* Island ( book ), a collection of short stories by Alistair MacLeod

Page, Dorothy Livesay, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, among others, have shared the personal challenges they faced in forging their own paths as writers.

Alistair (" Ally ") Reid MacLeod ( 26 February 1931 – 1 February 2004 ) was a Scottish professional football player.

Alistair Reid MacLeod was born in the south side of Glasgow on 26 February 1931.

Typically the programme was topped and tailed by Sherrin reading a comic monologue which, over the years, was written by Alistair Beaton, D. A. Barham, Ian Brown & James Hendrie, Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson, Tom Mitchelson, Ian Hawkins, Terence Dackombe, Andrew Nickolds, Steve Punt and Pete Sinclair.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

Botham ( second from left ) with fellow commentators Willis and Gower, politicians Alastair Campbell | Alistair Campbell and James Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar | James Erskine.

* Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), WWII adventure from the Alistair MacLean novel.

In Alistair Moffat's book, A History of the Borders from Early Times it is stated that there was a widely held 13th century belief amongst Scots that Englishmen had tails.

He is buried a few paces away from Alistair MacLean's grave.

* Tyneside: A History of Newcastle and Gateshead from Earliest Times, Alistair Moffat and George Rosie, Mainstream Publishing ( 10 November 2005 ), ISBN 1-84596-013-0

All episodes correspond to a TV episode and featured the original cast, apart from the original actor from the television program ( Bretherton ) not playing Alistair in Series One-Bretherton did play Alistair in both Series Two and Three.

The series was hosted by British / American broadcaster / journalist Alistair Cooke until 1992 ; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Russell Baker hosted from 1992 to 2004.

Many great programmes came out of Ealing from Alistair Cooke's America edited by Alan Tyrer to Z-Cars edited by Shelia Tomlinson and Cathy Come Home edited by Roger Waugh.

* Letter from America ( 1946 – 2004 ): Commentary on American news and events by Alistair Cooke.

Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992.

He achieved his greatest popularity in the U. S. in this role, becoming the subject of many parodies, including " Alistair Cookie " in Sesame Street & No. 39's " Monsterpiece Theater " (" Alistair Cookie " was also the name of a clay animated cookie-headed spoof character created by Will Vinton as the host of a video trailer for The Little Prince and Friends ); Alistair Quince, from The Carol Burnett Show, introducing the " The Family " sketches, which eventually became Mama's Family ; and, arguably, Leonard Pinth-Garnell, in Saturday Night Live & No. 39's " Bad Conceptual Theatre ".

* Guardian in article Emma Brockes Meets Alistair Cook's Daughter – Letters from my father

The Scottish singer-songwriter Alistair Hulett wrote a song about the ' swaggies ' called " The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away " ( mp3 download from the Artist's website ), which appeared on his album The Cold Grey Light Of Dawn.

In June 2005, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling announced the a proposal for a national scheme in which every vehicle would be fitted with a satellite receiver which would calculate charges, with prices ( including fuel duty ) ranging from 2p per mile on uncongested roads to £ 1. 34 on the most congested roads at peak times.

* There is talk of two dramas based on his life: one from Tom Bower and Andrew Lloyd Webber and another from Alistair Beaton.