Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, formerly known as the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, were a series of literary awards in Scotland which closed in 2013. Organised by Creative Scotland, and sponsored by the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, there were four categories: fiction; poetry; literary non-fiction; and first books. The winners in each category were selected by a panel of judges, and a public vote decided the overall winner of the Book of the Year award. The category winners received £5,000 each, with the Book of the Year winner receiving a further £25,000.Book of the Year winners
- 1994 Andrew Cowan, Pig
- 1995 Ali Smith, Free Love and Other Stories
- 2001 Ali Smith, Hotel World
- 2004 James Robertson, Joseph Knight
- 2005 Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House
- 2006 James Meek, The People's Act of Love
- 2007 Kirsty Gunn, The Boy and the Sea
- 2008 Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives
- 2009 James Kelman, Kieron Smith, boy
- 2010 Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
- 2011 Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road
- 2012 Janice Galloway, All Made Up
- 2013 Gavin Francis, Empire Antarctica
