Kelman wins Scottish prize01.12.08 Katie Allen writing in The Bookseller
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman (Hamish Hamilton), the novel the Independent's Boyd Tonkin claimed should have been on the Man Booker longlist, has won the Saltire Society’s Book of the Year.
Kelman was awarded the £5,000 prize today, beating The Lost Leader by Forward Prize-winner Mick Imlah (Faber).
Andrew Nicoll won the £1,500 first book award for The Good Mayor (Black and White Publishing); Ian Duncan was awarded the £1,500 reearch book of the year for Scott’s Shadow (Princeton University Press) and the winner of the £1,500 history book category was Alex Woolf for From Pictland to Alba 789—1070 (Edinburgh University Press).
The Saltire Society is a non-political organisation which promotes Scottish life and culture. Previous winners of the Book of the Year prize include Alasdair Gray, Kate Atkinson and Ali Smith.
Yes it's fab - and a critical study of Kelman was shortlisted for Book of the Year - that's got to be a first?
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