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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Sue Peebles describes her experience of winning the 2011 First Book Award for her novel, The Death of Lomond Friel (Vintage):
I took to my bed. I had just got back from holiday and there were one or two email messages from Kirsty Logan at Creative Scotland saying she had some ‘exciting news’ about [...]
Continue Reading →It’s all been happening at Scottish Book Awards HQ. We’ve received votes from over 30 different countries and debate is raging over which author should win the £30,000 prize. To join the discussion, follow us on Twitter @ScotBookAwards, like us on Facebook or add a comment to the vote page – and don’t forget [...]
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Jackie Kay on winning the 2011 Non-Fiction Prize:
I was in my son’s bedroom; he was in terrible pain having just had ACL reconstructive surgery on his right knee. (He’d had a football accident in his year in Guadalajara whilst doing his Spanish degree.) Carol Ann and Ella were visiting him, and we were [...]
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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 [...]
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