Emerging writers awarded
TEN writers have been given New Writers Awards by the Scottish Book Trust.
They are annually given to writers who have not yet published a full length book or collection with financial support, to enable them to concentrate on developing their work, as well as professional guidance to help them move towards publication.
Former awardees include Graeme Macrae Burnet, who was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, and authors Ciara MacLaverty, Olga Wojtas, Juliette Forrest, Kirsty Logan, Malachy Tallack and Claire Askew, who have publications out this year.
Each of the 10 recipients will receive a £2,000 cash award.
Five authors from Glasgow have been nominated for the 2018 New Writers Awards: Duncan Stewart Muir; Fiona McKeracher; Eilidh McCabe; Mary Fitzpatrick, a retired teacher and Rhona Warwick, a freelance writer.
Four authors from Edinburgh have also been nominated: Aileen Ballantyne; Nadine Aisha Jassat; Beth Cochrane and Anne Hughes.
Samantha Clark, an online tutor and visual artist from Orkney, has also been selected for the 2018 New Writers Awards.
The Gaelic awards went to Alister Paul and Calum MacKinnon.
The three judging panels reviewed over 450 submissions.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
GFF closing gala
GLASGOW Film Festival this year will close on 4 March with the World Premiere of the new Scottish documentary Nae Pasaran.
Felipe Bustos Sierra’s feature charts the true story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship.
In 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls Royce factory in East Kilbride showed their support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out the vital repairs of engines for Hawker Hunter planes, which had been used during the brutal military coup in September 1973.
The boycott endured for four years.
Bustos Sierra – a Scotland-based son of a Chilean exile – reunites figures Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, Stuart Barrie and John Keenan.
Nae Pasaran also details the horrors of the Pinochet years, meets survivors of the period and hears the Chilean side of the story.
Nae Pasaran is produced by Debasers Films and funded through grants from Creative Scotland (UK) and Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y los Artes - Fondo Audiovisual 2017 (Audiovisual Fond from the National Council for Culture and the Arts Chile), BBC Scotland (UK), the UK Film Tax Relief and nearly one thousand backers on Kickstarter.
www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
Latin show for capital
Ballet Hispánico, the one of the US's premier Latino dance organizations, is to bring its contemporary dance to Edinburgh from 6-10 March.
They will be performing CARMEN.maquia, a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic, and Linea Recta.
CARMEN.maquia mixes contemporary dance with the Spanish paso doble and flamenco and will be performed at the Festival Theatre.
The set design by Luis Crespo and black-and-white costumes by fashion designer David Delfin which nod to the paintings of Pablo Picasso.
Linea Recta is performed to flamenco guitar by Eric Vaarzon Morel.
www.edtheatres.com
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