Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
The Prize celebrates quality, and innovation of writing in the English language. The prize was founded in 2009 by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and is awarded at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland, in June every year.
In 2015 a new winner’s trophy was commissioned and a glass panel was designed and created, capturing the colours and shapes of the Scottish Borders. A new version of this trophy has been presented to winners in subsequent years.
2014 Glass plate ‘Pool’, Winner Robert Harris, ‘An Officer and a Spy’
2015 Glass panel ‘River’, winner John Spurling, ‘The Ten Thousand Things’
Photo K.Greenfield
2016 Glass panel ‘Borderland’, winner Simon Mawer, ‘Tightrope’
2017 Glass panel ‘Loch’, winner Sebastian Barry, ‘Days Without End’
2018 Glass panel ‘Borders’, winner Benjamin Myers, ‘The Gallows Pole’
2019 Glass panel ‘On A Clear Day’, winner Robin Robertson, ‘The Long
Take’