Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

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^[1] 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[1][2]

Winners

Year	Category	Title	Author	Reference
1968	Fiction	A Gift from Nessus	William McIlvanney
	Poetry	Stoats in the Sunlight	Stewart Conn	[3]
1970	Book of the Year	Terry Street	Douglas Dunn	[4][5]
	Poetry
1972	Poetry	Memo for Spring	Liz Lochhead	[6]
1974		<unknown>	Anne Stevenson	[7]
1975	Fiction	Docherty	William McIlvanney
	Poetry	Love or Nothing	Douglas Dunn	[5]
1977	Nonfiction	Jacobite Risings in Britiain	Bruce Philip Lenman	[8]
1978	Fiction	Secrets and Other Stories	Bernard MacLaverty	[9]
1979	Poetry	Under the Ice	Stewart Conn	[3]
1980	Nonfiction	An Economic History of Modern Scotland	Bruce Philip Lenman	[10]
1981	Fiction	Lamb	Bernard MacLaverty	[9]
1981	Book of the Year	Lanark: A Life in Four Books	Alasdair Gray	[11]
	First Book
1982	Fiction	A Time to Dance and Other Stories	Bernard MacLaverty	[9]
	Poetry	Black Spiders	Kathleen Jamie	[12]
	Nonfiction	The Death of Men	Allan Massie	[13]
1985	Nonfiction	Red Sky at Night	John Barrington
1986	Poetry	Standing Female Nude	Carol Ann Duffy	[14]
1988	Fiction	The Great Profundo and Other Stories	Bernard MacLaverty	[9]
	Poetry	The Way We Live	Kathleen Jamie	[12]
	First Book	A Case of Knives	Candia McWilliam	[15]
	Poetry	The Hoop	John Burnside	[16]
1989	Fiction	A Little Stranger	Candia McWilliam	[15]
	Poetry	The Apple Ghost	John Glenday	[17]
1990	Nonfiction	In Xanadu	William Dalrymple
	Poetry	The Other Country	Carol Ann Duffy	[14]
1991	Poetry	Common Knowledge	John Burnside	[16]
	First Book	Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains	A. L. Kennedy	[18]
1992	Poetry	The Adoption Papers	Jackie Kay	[19]
		Surviving the Shipwreck and Strange Loyalties	William McIlvanney
		The Luncheon of the Boating Party	Stewart Conn	[3]
1993	Poetry	Mean Time	Carol Ann Duffy	[14]
	Fiction	Looking for the Possible Dance	A. L. Kennedy	[20]
	First Book	Nil NIl	Don Paterson	[21]
1993 (or 1994)	First Book	Trainspotting	Irvine Welsh	[22][23]
1994	Poetry	Forked Tongue	W. N. Herbert	[24]
	Fiction	Now That You're Back	A. L. Kennedy
	First Book	Pig	Andrew Cowan	[4][25]
1995	Book of the Year	Free Love and Other Stories	Ali Smith	[26]
	First Book
	Fiction	So I Am Glad	A. L. Kennedy
1996	Poetry	Cabaret McGonagall	W. N. Herbert	[24]
	Poetry	Slattern	Kate Clanchy	[27]
1997	Nonfiction	From the Holy Mountain	William Dalrymple
		God's Gift to Women	Don Paterson	[21]
1998	Poetry	The Laurelude	W. N. Herbert	[24]
1999	First Book	Scar Culture	Toni Davidson	[28]
	Poetry	Samarkand	Kate Clanchy	[27]
	Fiction	Everything You Need	A. L. Kennedy	[29]
	Children's Book	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J. K. Rowling	[30]
2000	Fiction	Mr Mee	Andrew Crumey	[31]
2001	Book of the Year	Hotel World	Ali Smith
	Fiction
	Nonfiction	The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan	Kathleen Jamie	[12]
	Children's Book	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling	[30]
2002	Book of the Year	Hotel World	Ali Smith	[32]
	Children's Book	Oranges and Murde	Alison Prince	[32]
2003	Book of the Year	White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India	William Dalrymple	[32]
	Children's Book	Little Rabbit Lost	Harry Horse	[32]
2004	Book of the Year	Joseph Knight	James Robertson	[32]
	Children's Book	The Garbage King	Elizabeth Laird	[32]
2005	Book of the Year	The Tree House	Kathleen Jamie	[33][32]
	Children's Book	Sleepwalking	Nicola Morgan	[32]
2006	Book of the Year	The People's Act of Love	James Meek	[34][32]
2007	Book of the Year	The Boy and the Sea	Kirsty Gunn	[35][32]
	Fiction
	Nonfiction	A Lie About My Father	John Burnside	[35][32]
	First Book	George Mackay Brown: The Life	Maggie Fergusson	[32]
	Poetry	Swithering	Robin Robertson	[32]
2008	Book of the Year	A Book of Lives	Edwin Morgan	[36][32]
	Poetry
	Fiction	Girl Meets Boy	Ali Smith	[32]
	Nonfiction	The Wild Places	Robert Macfarlane	[32]
	First Book	Morocco Rococo	Jane McKie	[37][32]
2009	Book of the Year	Kieron Smith, Boy	James Kelman	[38][32]
	Fiction
	Nonfiction	What Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's Story	Kate Clanchy	[27][32]
	Poetry	Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness	Tom Pow	[32]
	First Book	Moonshine in the Morning	Andrea McNicoll	[32]
2010	Book of the Year	A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir	Donald Worster	[39][32][2]
	Nonfiction			[32]
	Poetry	Outside the Narrative	Tom Leonard	[32]
	Fiction	Strip the Willow	John Aberdein	[32]
	First Book	Eating Pomegranates	Sarah Gabriel	[32]
2011	Book of the Year	Red Dust Road	Jackie Kay	[19][32][2]
	Nonfiction			[19][32]
	Poetry	The Breakfast Room	Stewart Conn	[32]
	Fiction	Lyrics Alley	Leila Aboulela	[32]
	First Book	The Death of Lomond Friel	Sue Peebles	[32]
2012	Book of the Year	All Made Up	Janice Galloway	[40][41][2]
	Nonfiction
	Fiction	There But For The	Ali Smith	[41]
	Poetry	Aibisidh	Angus Peter Campbell	[41]
	First Book	Let Not the Waves of the Sea	Simon Stephenson	[41]
2013	Book of the Year	Empire Antarctica	Gavin Francis	[42][2]
	Nonfiction
	Fiction	Close Your Eyes	Ewan Morrison	[43][2]
	Poetry	Small World	Richard Price	[2]
	First Book	Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma	Kerry Hudson	[2]

See also

• Saltire Society Literary Awards