Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival Reveals Morrison And Russell To Be The Winners Of The Bloody Scotland Debut Prize For Crime Fiction And The Mcilvanney Prize 2021
sponsored by The Glencairn Glass with match funding from Culture & Business Fund Scotland.
The McIlvanney award
recognises excellence in Scottish crime writing, includes a prize of £1000 and
nationwide promotion in Waterstones. Previous winners are Francine Toon with Pine in 2020, Manda
Scott with A Treachery of
Spies in 2019 (who chose to share her prize with all the
finalists), Liam McIlvanney with The
Quaker in 2018, Denise Mina with The
Long Drop 2017, Chris Brookmyre with Black Widow 2016, Craig Russell with The Ghosts of Altona in
2015, Peter May with Entry
Island in 2014, Malcolm Mackay with How A Gunman Says Goodbye in 2013 and
Charles Cumming with A
Foreign Country in 2012.
Shortlisted authors for the McIlvanney Prize 2021 were:
Hyde by Craig Russell (Constable) – from Stirling
The April Dead by Alan Parks (Canongate) – from Glasgow
The Coffin Maker’s Garden by Stuart MacBride (HarperCollins) – from Aberdeen
The Silent Daughter by Emma Christie (Welbeck) – from Ayrshire / Aberdeen /
Portobello
Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison (Macmillan) – from Helensburgh / Glasgow
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