Lucy Caldwell wins 2023 Walter Scott Prize for These Days
15th June, 2023
The Belfast writer Lucy Caldwell has won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for her novel These Days, a story of loss and love set during the aerial bombardment of her home city in 1941, which caused some of the worst urban devastation in the UK in the whole of the Second World War. Her win… Read More »
Devika Ponnambalam interview: I wanted to write my way into a part of the past that seemed unjust, and unfinished somehow
13th June, 2023
Devika Ponnambalam, whose book I Am Not Your Eve gives Paul Gauguin’s muse and child bride Teha’amana a voice, tells us how she feels about being shortlisted I am beyond thrilled to make it through to the shortlist! The profile of the award will bring Teha’amana’s story to a much wider readership, which is truly… Read More »