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Showcase: Book Awards 2010
Leading American academic and historian Donald Worster has been awarded the Book of the Year Award for his biography A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir at the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. At the awards ceremony held at the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival, Donald Worster received a total of £30,000, in recognition of his literary talent, and the significance of his biography, which positions John Muir as a national icon for Scotland and a figure of global significance for concern about the environment.
Donald Worster was selected winner of the Non-Fiction category, and was shortlisted alongside Fiction winner Strip the Willow by John Aberdein, the Poetry winner Tom Leonard’s Outside the Narrative, and First Book winner Sarah Gabriel’s Eating Pomegranates.
The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards recognise and reward literary excellence in literary fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction. The Awards were first introduced as the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards in 1972. In 1999 the Scottish Arts Council introduced the first Children’s Book Awards in Scotland for writers for children.
