The Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award £5000 and Salitire Society/ Royal Scottish Mail Scottish First Book of the Year Award £1500 (by an author who has not previously published a book) may be given for any book by an author or authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, or for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot or with a Scottish question, event or situation. The book might be poetry, a novel, a play or other work of imaginative literature, or biography, literary criticism or a study of any Scottish issue. Books of multiple authorship would not normally qualify.
Scottish Book of the Year
2010 - And the Land Lay Still, by James Robertson
2009 - The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography, by Robert Crawford
Scottish First Book of the Year
2010 - The History of Orkney Literature by Simon Hall
2010 - The Death of Lomond Friel by Sue Peebles
2009 - The Tin-Kin by Eleanor Thom
2008 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Winner
29th November 2008, The author James Kelman, Scotland's only Booker Prize winner, has won the £5,000 Book of the Year Prize for his novel Kieron Smith, Boy.
Ian Duncan won the National Library of Scotland research prize for Scott's Shadow. The history award went to Alex Woolf for From Pictland to Alba.
The Royal Mail First Book prize went to Andrew Nicoll for The Good Mayor. He dedicated his award to a reviewer who had attacked the book's "banal stereotypes" and "burden of cliché"..
In welcome news the prize, which was in danger of going under due to a lack of a sponsor for 2009, has been rescued by the Government. Linda Fabiani, the culture minister, announced the Scottish Government backing as part of the Homecoming Year 2009 celebrations of Robert Burns's 250th anniversary. Catherine Lockerbie, director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, welcomed the "interesting and unusual move". The judging system of a secret ballot would ensure the prize's independence, she said.
The four category winners in the running are Kieron Smith, Boy
SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
Meaghan Delahunt The Red Book Granta Books
Mick Imlah The Lost Leader Faber and faber
James Kelman Kieron Smith, Boy Hamish Hamilton books
Martainn Mac an T-Saoir An Latha as Fhaide CLÀR
James Meek We Are Now Beginning Our Descent Canongate
Andrew O'Hagan The Atlantic Ocean Faber and faber
Ali Smith Girl meets boy Canongate
SALTIRE SOCIETY/ROYAL MAIL SCOTTISH FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR
D C Jackson The Wall faber and faber
Simon Kövesi James Kelman Manchester University Press
Shona MacLean The Redemption of Alexander Seaton Quercus
Andrea McNicoll Moonshine in the Morning Alma Books
Andrew Nicoll The Good Mayor Black and White Publishing Ltd.
Elaine di Rollo The Peachgrowers' Almanac Chatto & Windus
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2007 WINNERS:
Scottish Book of the Year - A L Kennedy's Day published by Jonathan Cape
Scottish First Book of the Year - Mark McNay's Fresh A Novel published by Cannongate
SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007 Shortlist - supported by The Faculty of Advocates.
Meg Bateman Soirbheas - Fair Wind, Polygon
Robert Crawford Scotland's Books The Penguin History of Scottish Literature, Penguin
William Dalrymple The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857, Bloomsbury
A L Kennedy Day, Jonathan Cape
Marista Leishman My Father: Reith of the BBC, Saint Andrew Press
Andrew Marr A History of Modern Britain(BBC), MacMillan
Iain Moireach Snìomh Nan Dual 6 Cluichean, Acair
Don Paterson Orpheus, Faber and Faber
Trevor Royle The Flowers of the Forest, Scotland and the First World War, Birlinn
SCOTTISH FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007 Shortlist - supported by The Royal Mail Group.
Angus Dunn Writing in the Sand, Luath Press
Mark McNay Fresh A Novel, Canongate
Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves, Quercus
Remzije Sherifi Shadow Behind the Sun, Sandstone Press
Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year 1982- 2007
1982 - Lanark by Alasdair Gray[
1984 - Intimate Voices by Tom Leonard
1986 - A Question of Loyalties by Allan Massie
1987 - The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
1994 - Burns by James A. Mackay
1995 - So I am Glad by A. L. Kennedy
1996 - The Kiln by William McIlvanney
1997 - Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
1998 - The Sopranos by Alan Warner
1999 - Pursuits by George Bruce
2000 - The Lantern Bearers by Ronald Frame
2001 - Medea by Liz Lochhead
2002 - Clara by Janice Galloway (based on the life of Clara Schumann)
2003 - Joseph Knight by James Robertson
2004 - In Another Light by Andrew Greig
2005 - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
2006 - A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
2007 - Day by A. L. Kennedy
Royal Mail/Scottish Best First Book of the Year 1991- 2007
1991 - Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains by A. L. Kennedy
1992 - Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay
1995 - Free Love and other stories by Ali Smith
1996 - Slattern by Kate Clanchy
1997 - A Painted Field by Robin Robertson
1998 - The Pied Piper’s Poison by Christopher Wallace and Two Clocks Ticking by Dennis O'Donnell
1999 - Some Rain Must Fall by Michael Faber
2000 - The Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith
2001 - In the Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt
2002 - Burns the Radical by Liam McIlvanney and The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
2003 - Ath - Aithne by Martainn Mac an t-Saoir
2004 - Stargazing by Peter Hill
2005 - Amande's Bed by John Aberdein
2006 - George Mackay Brown The Life by Maggie Fergusson
2007 - Fresh - A novel by Mark McNay
