Global prize for book published in Dingwall
A translation of a novel printed by a small Scottish book publisher has been named the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
Jokha Alharthi, the £50,000 award’s first winner to write in Arabic, shares the prize equally with her translator, American academic Marilyn Booth.
Celestial Bodies, which follows the lives of three sisters in an Omani village, was published in English by Sandstone Press, based in Dingwall.
Sandstone said :“We’ re so proud to have brought this book to an English speaking audience, and we’re delighted that the judges see the same things in it that we do.”
Chair of judges for the prize, historian Bet t any Hughes, said: “Through the tentacles of people’s lives, loves and losses, we come to learn about this society – all its degrees, from the very poorest of the slave families working thereto those making money through the advent of new wealth.”