The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, formerly known as the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award (2001), and Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Awards (2007-2008), were a series of annual literary awards in Scotland that ran from 1972 to 2013. Organised by Creative Scotland (formerly the Scottish Arts Council/SAC), it was sponsored by the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (2013), Sundial Properties (at least 2007-2008).
Starting in 2007, the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards have recognised and rewarded Scottish authors in four categories: Fiction (including the short story), Poetry, Nonfiction and First Book. The winners in each category were selected by a panel of judges, and a public vote decided the overall winner of the Book of the Year award. The selected authors either live in Scotland or wrote a book that is of Scottish interest.
In 1999 a new overall prize of £10,000 for the Book of the Year. In 2013 the category winners received £5,000 each, with the Book of the Year winner receiving a further £25,000.
Winners
+Year Category Title AuthorReference1968FictionA Gift from NessusWilliam McIlvanneyPoetryStoats in the SunlightStewart Conn1970Book of the YearTerry StreetDouglas DunnPoetry1972PoetryMemo for SpringLiz Lochhead1974<unknown>Anne Stevenson1975FictionDochertyWilliam McIlvanneyPoetryLove or NothingDouglas Dunn1977NonfictionJacobite Risings in BritiainBruce Philip Lenman1978FictionSecrets and Other StoriesBernard MacLaverty1979PoetryUnder the IceStewart Conn1980NonfictionAn Economic History of Modern ScotlandBruce Philip Lenman1981FictionLambBernard MacLaverty1981Book of the YearLanark: A Life in Four BooksAlasdair GrayFirst Book1982FictionA Time to Dance and Other StoriesBernard MacLavertyPoetryBlack SpidersKathleen JamieNonfictionThe Death of MenAllan Massie1985NonfictionRed Sky at NightJohn Barrington1986PoetryStanding Female NudeCarol Ann Duffy1988FictionThe Great Profundo and Other StoriesBernard MacLavertyPoetryThe Way We LiveKathleen JamieFirst BookA Case of KnivesCandia McWilliamPoetryThe HoopJohn Burnside1989FictionA Little StrangerCandia McWilliamPoetryThe Apple GhostJohn Glenday1990NonfictionIn XanaduWilliam DalrymplePoetryThe Other CountryCarol Ann Duffy1991PoetryCommon KnowledgeJohn BurnsideFirst BookNight Geometry and the Garscadden TrainsA. L. Kennedy1992PoetryThe Adoption PapersJackie KaySurviving the Shipwreck and Strange LoyaltiesWilliam McIlvanneyThe Luncheon of the Boating PartyStewart Conn1993PoetryMean TimeCarol Ann DuffyFictionLooking for the Possible DanceA. L. KennedyFirst BookNil NIlDon Paterson1993 (or 1994)First BookTrainspottingIrvine Welsh1994PoetryForked TongueW. N. HerbertFictionNow That You're BackA. L. KennedyFirst BookPigAndrew Cowan1995Book of the Year Free Love and Other StoriesAli SmithFirst BookFictionSo I Am GladA. L. Kennedy1996PoetryCabaret McGonagallW. N. HerbertPoetrySlatternKate Clanchy1997NonfictionFrom the Holy MountainWilliam DalrympleGod's Gift to WomenDon Paterson1998PoetryThe LaureludeW. N. Herbert1999First BookScar CultureToni DavidsonPoetrySamarkandKate ClanchyFictionEverything You NeedA. L. KennedyChildren's BookHarry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsJ. K. Rowling2000FictionMr MeeAndrew Crumey2001Book of the Year Hotel WorldAli SmithFictionNonfictionThe Golden Peak: Travels in Northern PakistanKathleen JamieChildren's BookHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ. K. Rowling2002Book of the YearHotel WorldAli SmithChildren's BookOranges and MurdeAlison Prince2003Book of the YearWhite Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century IndiaWilliam DalrympleChildren's BookLittle Rabbit LostHarry Horse2004Book of the Year Joseph KnightJames RobertsonChildren's BookThe Garbage King Elizabeth Laird2005Book of the Year The Tree HouseKathleen JamieChildren's BookSleepwalkingNicola Morgan2006Book of the Year The People's Act of LoveJames Meek2007 Book of the Year The Boy and the SeaKirsty GunnFictionNonfictionA Lie About My FatherJohn BurnsideFirst BookGeorge Mackay Brown: The LifeMaggie FergussonPoetrySwitheringRobin Robertson2008Book of the Year A Book of LivesEdwin MorganPoetryFictionGirl Meets Boy Ali Smith NonfictionThe Wild Places Robert MacfarlaneFirst BookMorocco RococoJane McKie2009Book of the Year Kieron Smith, BoyJames KelmanFictionNonfictionWhat Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's StoryKate ClanchyPoetryDear Alice: Narratives of MadnessTom PowFirst BookMoonshine in the MorningAndrea McNicoll2010Book of the Year A Passion for Nature: The Life of John MuirDonald WorsterNonfictionPoetryOutside the Narrative Tom LeonardFictionStrip the WillowJohn AberdeinFirst BookEating PomegranatesSarah Gabriel2011Book of the YearRed Dust RoadJackie KayNonfictionPoetryThe Breakfast RoomStewart ConnFictionLyrics AlleyLeila AboulelaFirst BookThe Death of Lomond Friel Sue Peebles2012Book of the YearAll Made UpJanice GallowayNonfiction FictionThere But For TheAli SmithPoetryAibisidhAngus Peter CampbellFirst BookLet Not the Waves of the SeaSimon Stephenson2013Book of the Year Empire AntarcticaGavin FrancisNonfictionFictionClose Your EyesEwan MorrisonPoetrySmall WorldRichard PriceFirst BookTony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My MaKerry Hudson
See also Saltire Society Literary Awards
References
External links Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, in partnership with Creative Scotland