Alert! Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer has been shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
The Walter Scott Prize is one of the largest literary awards in the UK, with a total prize value is £30 000. The longlist for the award was announced in February.
The judging panel for the prize is Kirsty Wark, Louise Richardson, Jonathan Tweedie, Elizabeth Laird, Elizabeth Buccleuch, and chair Alistair Moffat.
The award announcement will be made on Saturday, 13 June 2015, at a public event as part of the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival.
The shortlisted books for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction are:
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
In The Wolf’s Mouth by Adam Foulds
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
The Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling
Announcing the shortlist, the Chair of Judges Alistair Moffat said:
“We had a record number of entries, our most extensive longlist and, as a result, our longest shortlist since the first Walter Scott Prize in 2010. This list of seven fantastic novels represents the diversity and breadth of style that the genre of historical fiction now encompasses – from the poetic to the experimental, and from satire to adventure, writing set in the past can challenge, excite and innovate in a hundred different ways.
“Our 2015 shortlist could easily have been longer, but we hope we have represented the vibrancy of historical writing published in this last year, as well as a broad range of global settings from colonial India to fourteenth century China, Europe during the two world wars, and seventeenth century England.”
Congratulations and good luck to Damon!
The shortlisted books, at Walter Scott's writing desk pic.twitter.com/b0OBAR5WuY
— Walter Scott Prize (@waltscottprize) March 24, 2015
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- Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
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EAN: 9781415207598
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- The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
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- The Lie by Helen Dunmore
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- Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
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- In the Wolf’s Mouth by Adam Faulds
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- A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
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- Ten Thousand Things: http://images.kalahari.net/img/2013/07/03/47556851_0_Img2.jpg by John Spurling
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