Scottish Arts Council Book Awards / New Writing Awards 1972 - 1978
1972
- James Aitchison
- Honor Arundel
- S G Checkland
- George Macdonald Fraser
- George Friel
- Mollie Hunter
- Liz Lochhead
- Charles Maclean
- Joseph Macleod
- Alan Campbell McLean
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Gordon Williams
1973
- Forbes Bramble Stone
- Alisdair Maclean From the Wilderness
- Rosalind Marshall The Days of Duchess Anne
- John Murray Am Aghaidh Chgoimheach
- David Daiches Charles Edward Stuart
- Amy Stewart Fraser The Hills of Home
- Robin Jenkins A Far Cry From Bowmore
- Norman MacCaig The White Bird
- Edwin Morgan From Glasgow to Saturn
1974
- James Cameron
- Mora Dickson
- Douglas Dunn
- Gordon Macdonald Fraser
- Gordon McGill
- Robin Munro
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Anne Stevenson
- Donald Stevenson
- Mary Stewart
1975
- Elizabeth Byrd
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Alexander Fenton
- Robert Garioch
- Flora Garry
- Giles Gordon
- William McIlvanney
- Edwin Morgan
- Iain Crichton Smith
- George Malcolm Thomson
1976
- George Mackay Brown
- Catherine Czerkawska
- Elspeth Davie
- James Hunter
- Elizabeth Marshall
- Edwin Morgan
- Robert Nye
- Agnes Stewart
1977
- JWM Bannerman
- Marion Campbell
- Edward J Cowan
- Robert Garioch
- John Gibson
- Christopher Harvie
- Mollie Hunter
- John Keay
- Bernard MacLaverty
- Sorley MacLean
- Edwin Morgan
- John Purser
- Alan Spence
- K A Steer
- Gordon Wright
1978
- JK Annand
- Alan Bold
- Hamish Brown
- David Kerr Cameron
- Stewart Conn
- Elspeth Davie
- G F Dutton
- Nicholas S Gray
- John Herdman
- Robin Jenkins
- Bruce Lenman
- Harry McShane
- David Murison
- Walter Perrie
- Alastair Reid
- Joan Smith
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About the SAC New Writing Awards
The Scottish Arts Council Book Awards / New Writing Awards were awarded annually to specific authors in recognition of their work. In 1972 each author won £300; by 1978 the prize was worth £500.
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