List of winners of the Dundee International Book Prize
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This is a list of winners of the Dundee International Book Prize by year.
List
[edit]| Year | Author | Title | Genre(s) | Nationality |
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| 2000 | Andrew Murray Scott | Tumulus | Novel |  United Kingdom
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| 2002 | Claire-Marie Watson | The Curewife | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2005 | Malcolm Archibald | Whales for the Wizard | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2007 | Fiona Dunscombe | The Triple Point of Water | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2009 | Chris Longmuir | Dead Wood | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2010 | Alan Wright | Act of Murder | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2011 | Simon Ashe-Brown | Nothing Human Left | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2012 | Jacob M. Appel | The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up | Novel |  United States
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| 2013 | Nicola White | In the Rosary Garden | Novel |  Ireland
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| 2014 | Amy Mason | The Other Ida | Novel | United Kingdom
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| 2015 | Martin Cathcart Froden | Devil Take the Hindmost | Novel |  Sweden
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| 2016 | Jessica Thummel | The Cure for Lonely | Novel | United States
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2000
[edit]Andrew Murray Scott's book Tumulus (inaugural winner 2000) detailed bohemian Dundee through the 60s and 70s to the present day. The judges said that it "reveals a great knowledge and love of Dundee while paying the city the compliment of being intelligently amused by various aspects of its life and outlook".[1]
2002
[edit]Claire-Marie Watson's The Curewife (2002) drew on the tale of Dundee's last execution of a witch – Grissel Jaffray in 1669. Hilary Mantel said that it won as it had a "highly charged atmosphere and its real sense of the dark and brooding".[2]
2005
[edit]Malcolm Archibald's Whales for a Wizard (2005) was an adventure story based around the whaling industry in Dundee in the 1860s. It was called an "old-fashioned, traditional, rip-roaring adventure story" by Ian Rankin.[3]
2007
[edit]Fiona Dunscombe's The Triple Point of Water (2007) drew on her experiences of working in Soho during the 1980s.[citation needed]
2009
[edit]Chris Longmuir's Dead Wood (2009) was a grizzly crime novel set in a world of violence and gangland retribution. The List calls it "lacklustre", "Flat and clunky", and "a poor addition to the Scottish crime genre".[4]
2010
[edit]Alan Wright's Act of Murder (2010) was a tale of magic, poisonings and thespians, with some gruesome murders thrown in for good measure set in Victorian times in Lancashire.[5] It was called a "worthy winner for a prize" in a review by Fife Today.[6]
2011
[edit]Simon Ashe-Browne's Nothing Human Left (2011) was a psychological thriller set in a Dublin public school as a schoolboy's criminal desires reach a frightening conclusion.[7]
2012
[edit]Jacob Appel's The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up was a satire of post-9/11 patriotism in the United States, called by Stephen Fry, a 2012 judge, "darkly comic", and fellow judge Philip Pullman called it "Engaging, funny, ingenious, even charming".[8]
2013
[edit]Nicola White's 2013 winner In the Rosary Garden (2013) is a murder mystery set in a convent school;[9][10] being described by critics as "as good as it gets", A. L. Kennedy, a 2013 judge. called it "courageous and intelligent"[11]
2014
[edit]Amy Mason's The Other Ida won the 2014 prize.[12] The novel focuses on two sisters in the wake of their mother's death; their struggle and the tension between the siblings play out as the two attempt to come to terms with loss.[13]
2015
[edit]Martin Cathcart Froden's Devil Take the Hindmost takes place in London during the 1920s and revolves around a cyclist caught up in the fevered bets and loan sharks of the velodrome racing scene.[14]
2016
[edit]The final prize was awarded to Jessica Thummel's The Cure for Lonely.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dundee Book Prize". University of Dundee. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ The Curewife [Paperback]. ASIN 0954407547.
- ^ "The 'latter-day Robert Louis Stevenson' nets top prize". The Scotsman. 28 April 2005. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Chris Longmuir - Dead Wood". The List. 10 August 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Teacher wins £10,000 prize for unpublished novel". The Scotsman. 25 June 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Book review: Act of Murder, by Alan Wright". Fife Today. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Simon Ashe-Brown". Dundee International Book Prize. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up [Paperback]. ASIN 1908885114.
- ^ In The Rosary Garden [Paperback]. ASIN 1908885661.
- ^ Dougan, Karyn (25 October 2013). "Nicola White - In the Rosary Garden". List. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Dundee International Book Prize won by Nicola White". BBC. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Amy Mason scoops Dundee International Book Prize award". BBC News. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "The Other Ida by Amy Mason review – a dysfunctional family amid grief". The Guardian. 29 November 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Dundee International Bookprize". Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Winners 2000 – 2016". Dundee International Book Prize. Retrieved 14 December 2019.