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Kennedy wins Saltire
03.12.07 Alison Flood
Day by A L Kennedy (Jonathan Cape) has picked up the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award, winning £5,000 at a ceremony in Edinburgh on St Andrew's Day last week.
The awards, which are Scotland's oldest literary prize, also saw Fresh by Mark McNay (Canongate) take home the First Book of the Year Award, which comes with a £1,500 prize pot.
The Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award was split between Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott by David Robb (Dunedin Academic Press), and Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature by Robert Crawford (Penguin).
There were also two awards for the Saltire Society/Gillespie Macandrew Scottish History Book of the Year, with Scotland's Historic Heraldry by Bruce McAndrew (Boydell & Brewer) and The Scots and The Union by Christopher Whatley with Derek J Patrick (Edinburgh University Press) both picking up a prize.
This is the final year that the Faculty of Advocates will sponsor the Book of the Year Award, and the Saltire Society is now "actively" seeking new sponsorship for the award.
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