Here’s a gallery of photographs by Chris Scott from this year’s Scottish Book Awards event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Continue Reading →We are delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her autobiography Red Dust Road.
Jackie Kay received her £30,000 prize at a ceremony hosted by Dame Jenni Murray at the Edinburgh International [...]
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Jane McKie shares her experience of winning the 2008 First Book award for her poetry collection Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press):
The phone rang. I was in the lounge attempting some art with my one and a half-year old girl. I picked it up and listened to Aly Barr tell me that Morocco Rococo had [...]
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Andrea McNicoll writes about her experience of winning the 2009 First Book Award:
I was at work when I heard I’d won the 2009 prize for first book. I was in my car, having just finished a visit with a service user who was hearing voices (I was working for a mental health service [...]
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Nicola Morgan discusses winning the 2005 Children’s Book of the Year Award:
Where were you when you heard that you had won the award?
I was just about to walk the dog. I’d already opened the door when the phone rang and I nipped back in to answer it, leaving the door open [...]
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My response is one of astonished delight, all the more heartwarming in that it is for this particular volume of poems. The bulk of them, from the title sequence to those which are self-evidently love-poems, were written from, and in the hope of touching, the heart. Allied to this there’s the question of [...]
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Leila Aboulela writes about winning the fiction category.
I was at home when I got the call telling me that Lyrics Alley had won the Fiction Award. I had just walked back from the gym and was going through my emails. The news was completely unexpected and a great honour. I was deeply [...]
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Writer/musician/consultant/player/theorist/activist Pat Kane was on the judging panel for the awards in 2010. Here’s the text of his speech on the 2010 Book of the Year A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster (Oxford University Press).
“As Scotland grows in confidence and stature, through waves of cultural [...]
Continue Reading →James Robertson writes about winning the 2004 award with his novel, Joseph Knight:
I first came across a brief mention of the story of Joseph Knight in a book about Dundee in, I think, 2000. At the time I was just beginning to sketch out something quite different, a novel [...]
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Lilias Fraser from the Scottish Poetry Library reminisces about her time as a book awards judge, and shares her thoughts on this year’s longlisted poetry books:
The category shortlists for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Awards are effectively tiptop reading lists. I’m enjoying revisiting the four poetry titles here, happy in the knowledge [...]
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