Benjamin Myers and Richard Benson won the Portico Prize for Literature, which celebrates "the strong regional and literary identity of the North of England," the Bookseller reported. Myers took the fiction prize for Beastings, while Benson's The Valley was the nonfiction winner. Each author received £10,000 (about $15,065).
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Michel Faber won the £8,000 (about $12,035) Saltire Book of the Year award for The Book of Strange New Things, the Bookseller reported, noting that organizers praised the strength of the shortlist as "testament to the quality and scope of Scotland's rich literary scene." He was selected from the six book category winners of the Saltire Society Literary Awards
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Michel Faber won the £8,000 (about $12,035) Saltire Book of the Year award for The Book of Strange New Things, the Bookseller reported, noting that organizers praised the strength of the shortlist as "testament to the quality and scope of Scotland's rich literary scene." He was selected from the six book category winners of the Saltire Society Literary Awards
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