James Robertson
In James Robertson, Scotland has a writer of the highest literary quality and cultural acuity. He lives in Angus and recently served as the Scottish Parliament’s first Writer in Residence. He has published novels, stories, poetry, anthologies, compiled a Scottish Dictionary of Quotations and is also editor of an educational Scots imprint. His second novel, Joseph Knight, won the two major Scottish literary prizes in 2003/4 – the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The Testament of Gideon Mack, published by Hamish Hamilton in 2006, was longlisted for the Man Booker prize. His latest novel And the Land Lay Still was published in August 2010 to great critical acclaim and won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.