Kirsty Gunn Wins Inaugural Sundial SAC Award
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
New Zealand born author Kirsty J Gunn has won the first ever Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award for her novella The Boy and the Sea. Gunn was announced as the winner at an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and received a £25,000 prize cheque.
Other winners on the night were:
- John Burnside won the non-fiction award for A Lie About My Father
- Maggie Fergusson won the first book award for George Mackay Brown: A Life
- Robin Robertson won the poetry award for Swithering
Each of the category winners won £5,000. The awards were judged by Elizabeth Laird, Dr Robyn Marsack, and Dr Gavin Wallace.
Praising The Boy and the Sea, the judges commented:
"The Boy and the Sea is perfectly realised with an economy where every word is beautifully weighted, and internal patterns of imagery and metaphor delicately and deftly woven. It is a novella of consummate subtlety, imaginative daring, and emotional intensity, capturing the anguish of adolescent sensitivity and mystery in an intimate yet elemental story, rendered in a poetic prose of dazzling lyricism. The tension builds towards a climax for which the reader has been perfectly prepared, but which is nonetheless overwhelming, like the sea itself."
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From the author of 'Rain' and 'Featherstone' comes a story of one sun-drenched, sea-soaked day when a boy's life is turned upside down.
Saturday 18th August 2007
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