Young Walter Scott prizewinners honoured in virtual awards event
17th June, 2020
The winners of the 2019 Young Walter Scott Prize were honoured in a virtual awards event hosted on facebook live on Tuesday 16th June 2020. Category winners Ide Crawford (14), from Macclesfield and Charlotte Lee (19), from Crewe, spoke about their reaction to winning the prize for their stories The Whale’s Way and The Best Thing, and were congratulated… Read More »
Christine Dwyer Hickey wins the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for The Narrow Land
12th June, 2020
The Irish author Christine Dwyer Hickey has won the eleventh Walter Scott Prize for her novel The Narrow Land, in which she explores the marriage of the artists Edward and Jo Hopper. The Judges of the Prize said: ‘It’s a risky business, portraying the marriage of two artists, particularly when both the marriage and the… Read More »