Kirsty Gunn wins British book award
21 Aug 2007
NZ writer Kirsty Gunn, who is currently teaching at Scotland's Dundee University, has been named as the inaugural winner of the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award. Gunn received the…
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NZ writer Kirsty Gunn, who is currently teaching at Scotland's Dundee University, has been named as the inaugural winner of the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award. Gunn received the £25,000 (NZ$71,000) prize at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for her novella The Boy And The Sea.
Gunn told the Sunday Herald in Glasgow that she was delighted with the award because "literary fiction in general doesn't get enough attention ... The middlebrow has become predominant, and the bookshops are full of Jamie Oliver."