Prizing Scottish Literature: A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards - Paperback

by Stevie Marsden (Author)

This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.

Author Biography

Stevie Marsden is a research associate at the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, and a lecturer in publishing at the University of Derby. This is her first monograph.