6.08.2006
Ian McEwan Wins Scottish Fiction Prize
Ian McEwan's 2005 novel Saturday has picked up this year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The £10,000 (20,679.41 CAD) prize is the largest literary prize in Scotland, and McEwan's victory is particularly unexpected, because, as the Guardian notes in this article, "McEwan's book was not even longlisted for the Man Booker award and was passed over for the Whitbread prize." Of course the most pressing question is, when are they going to give me one of these things?
