Literary successes for staff

Three members of University of Edinburgh staff have been recognised for their literary contribution in this year’s Saltire Society Literary Awards.

The awards were announced at a ceremony on St Andrew’s Day.

Winners

Professor Charles Withers, Ogilvie Chair of Geography, won Scottish Research Book of the Year for ‘Scotland: Mapping the Nation’ (Birlinn), co-authored with Christopher Fleet and Margaret Wilkes.

History Senior Lecturer Dr Jeremy Crang picked up the the award for Scottish History Book of the Year with Edward Spiers and Matthew Strickland for their title ‘A Military History of Scotland’ (Edinburgh University Press).

Corey Gibson, fourth-year PhD candidate and Postgraduate Tutorial Assistant in Scottish Literature, was awarded the Ross Roy Medal for the ‘best PhD in a field relating to Scottish Literature’.