Scottish Arts Council

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Wealth and Poverty Kathleen Jamie
With her salary and the award at the turn of the century of two years' generous funding from the Scottish Arts Council , KJ said: At last I've got as much money as I need.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
Travel Liz Lochhead
LL went to Glendon College in Toronto, on the first Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange.
The Canadian writer who spent that year in Scotland was the novelist Graeme Gibson , Margaret Atwood 's partner.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16.
8, 13
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's first book, a collection entitled Free Love and Other Stories, was published by Virago Press . The book won that year's Saltire Literary Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury.
xv
“Ali Smith Wins the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction”. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Textual Production Ali Smith
Finally, in 2006, Smith joined up again with director Matthew Zajac , her original partner for the Highland Festival, and successfully reapplied to the Scottish Arts Council for funding. Now partnered with the Dogstar Theatre...
Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
271
as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
CAD considers these poems to be juvenilia.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
5
The following year she received a Scottish Arts Council Award.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
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Reception Anne Stevenson
AS has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham , 1981-2,
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
9
and...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
Critics welcomed this new voice in poetry. Peter Porter noted that the urgency of CAD 's crusading sensibility
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
152
had not led her to any compromise in the artistry of her language. The book won...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
This book garnered the Forward Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and another Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
prelims
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Eavan Boland called CADone of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry—any poetry—for years.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
152
Reception Kathleen Jamie
This volume won KJ a Scottish Arts Council award.
Mulford, Wendy, editor. The Virago Book of Love Poetry. Virago Press.
256
Of the suddenness of her early success she says, I didn't think of asking permission
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
and Nobody told me I couldn't do it.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
Reception Kathleen Jamie
On its original appearance, this book won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for 1992.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Reception Kathleen Jamie
KJ has said that now, having all the time, money (a two-year grant from the Scottish Arts Council ), and confidence she needs, she feels able to say, I'm a poet and this is what...
Reception Jackie Kay
This collection won a prize from the Scottish Arts Council .
Kay, Jackie. Red Dust Road. Pan Macmillan.
129
Maggie Gee praised the stories in The Sunday Times Culture, calling them accomplished and fearless.
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Reception Liz Lochhead
This volume won a Scottish Arts Council book award.
Reception Ali Smith
As recipient of the Saltire Literary Award and a 10,000-euro prize from the Scottish Arts Council , Free Love and Other Stories was received with considerable acclaim. According to Jeanette Winterson , AS was actually...

Timeline

January 2004: A new quarterly, the Scottish Review of Books,...

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January 2004

A new quarterly, the Scottish Review of Books, was launched, published in Edinburgh by the Scottish Arts Council .

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