Prizing Scottish Literature - A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards

This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.

List of contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; 1. The History of the Saltire Society; 2. The Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year; 3. The Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award; Part II; 4. 'What's This Got to Do with Scotland?': Qualifying Scottishness through Terms of Eligibility; 5. Noticing Talent: Michel Faber, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and the Saltire Society Literary Awards; 6. Not Your Typical Book Award: New Ways of Thinking about Literary Awards; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Stevie Marsden is a research associate at the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, and a lecturer in publishing at the University of Derby. This is her first monograph.

Product details

• Authors: Stevie Marsden
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781785274817
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-481-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies