Gaelic Literature Awards 2020 winners
18 September 2020
The Gaelic Books Council (Comhairle nan
Leabhraichean) announced the winners of the Gaelic Literature Awards 2020 on 17
September 2020. The digital event was live streamed on YouTube and
you can catch-up on it here.
Congratulations to all the winners and to publisher
Acair who publishes three of them! The prizes
were awarded in six categories, for titles published between 1 May
2019 and 30 April 2020, and for unpublished manuscripts. The
winners are:
Best Fiction Book (Highland Society of London
Prize)
An Tiortach Beag agus Sgeulachdan Eile,
Morag Ann MacNeil (Acair)
Best Poetry Book (Derick Thomson Prize)
Cluaintean Uaine, George L. Murray and
Donald Gillies (Acair)
Best Non-fiction Book (Donald Meek Prize)
The Highest Apple / An Ubhal As
Àirde, ed. Wilson McLeod & Michael Newton (Francis
Boutle)
Seòl mo Bheatha, Donald E. Meek (CLÀR)
Best Book for Children/Young People
Mo Ghranaidh agus an Losgann Mòr, Marie
C. Macaulay, (Acair)
Best Unpublished Manuscript for Children/Young
People
Ailig agus an Dalek Gàidhlig, Shelagh Campbell
Best Unpublished Manuscript for Adults
Linne Dhomhainn, Alistair Paul