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Kennedy in line for Scottish prize
Fresh from her Costa triumph A L Kennedy has been shortlisted for a brand new Scottish book award, the Clare Maclean prize, notes the Guardian.
However, she is up against some stiff competition for the £3,000 purse, given to the Scottish writer who has "written the best novel in the previous year". Former Whitbread award-winner Ali Smith is in the running with Girl Meets Boy, her contemporary retelling of the myth of Iphis and Ianthe, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, along with fellow Whitbread winner Alasdair Gray for Old Men in Love, a collection of fragments purporting to be the posthumously published work of a retired Glaswegian schoolteacher.
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