THE true story of Scottish boys marooned at sea has earned a second prestigious Carnegie Medal for the writer Geraldine McCaughrean.
The winners of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest children’s book awards, have been announced at a ceremony at The British Library in London.
McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal for the second time with her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends.
It is inspired by an historical record from 18th century St Kilda, the book explores the fates of a group of men and boys who find themselves stranded on a remote and inhospitable sea stac after their return boat fails to turn up.
On winning the Medal, McCaughrean said: “When I won the Carnegie 30 years ago, it felt like a licence to go on writing – to call myself an author.
"I am almost ashamed of how much I wanted to win again – just to prove to myself that it wasn’t a fluke."
Canadian illustrator Sydney Smith won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for the first time for his illustrations in Joanne Schwartz’s Town Is by the Sea.
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WINNERS of two prestigious traditional music competitions have been announced.
The competitions were held at Armadale Castle on the Isle of Skye.
The winner of the 32nd Donald MacDonald Cuach piobaireachd competition was Iain Speirs.
The winner of the inaugural Princess Margaret of the Isles Memorial Prize for Senior Clàrsach was Riko Matsuoka.
Both competitions took places in the Stables Café at Armadale Castle.
Mr Speirs has won both Gold Medals and numerous other prizes in competition.
He has won the Glenfiddich Championship on two occasions and won the Donald MacDonald Cuach in 2009 and 2016.
Riko Matsuoka was born in the Osaka prefecture of Japan and moved to Edinburgh to study the clàrsach and traditional Scottish music in 2016.
In 2017 Riko began her Masters studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on the Scottish Traditional Music Course under the tuition of Corrina Hewat and Heather Downie.
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