JESSICA Thummel’s unpublished novel The Margins has been announced as the winner of the Dundee International Book Prize 2016.
The writer, who lives in Denver, wins £5000, a publishing deal with Freight Books of Glasgow and a week’s writing time in Dundee. The book will be published next year.
She said: "The Margins and its characters have spent the better part of a decade in my mind, so the possibility of them existing in others' is both surreal and exhilarating. Thank you for this opportunity.”
The winning novel is the coming-of-age story of Sam Gavin, a transexual man who moves from Kansas to San Francisco in the summer of 1989. The prize was judged by broadcaster Shereen Nanjiani, poet Ian McMillan, critic Hannah McGill and publisher Adrian Searle.
The Dundee International Book Prize is a collaboration between the University of Dundee, Freight Books and Dundee City Council's One City, Many Discoveries campaign.
dundee.ac.uk
A SILVER fork and spoon designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and valued at over £15,000 will be sold at auction in Edinburgh by Lyon & Turnbull on October 26, with the
proceeds going to The Willow Tearooms Trust in Glasgow.
In 1902 Jessie and Fra Newbery commissioned from Mackintosh a design for a twelve place setting of dining cutlery, a gift from Jessie's parents. The cutlery was later divided equally between the Newberys' daughters, Mary and Elsie and Mary's pieces were sold separately during the 1970s and 1980s.
The silver fork and spoon were donated by Celia Sinclair, founder and chair of The Willow Tea Rooms Trust.
She said “I am delighted that I am able to offer these beautiful objects for sale to benefit the work we are doing at the trust. The money raised from the sale will go towards the restoration of the tearooms.”
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