THE PRESTIGIOUS YOUNG WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ANNOUNCES THIS YEAR’S WINNERS, INCLUDING A YOUNG WRITER FROM SOUTH OF SCOTLAND

THE PRESTIGIOUS YOUNG WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ANNOUNCES THIS YEAR’S WINNERS, INCLUDING A YOUNG WRITER FROM SOUTH OF SCOTLAND

The winners of this year’s Young Walter Scott Prize for writers of historical fiction have been announced, with first places awarded to Katherine White in the 11-15 years category for her entry, A Bog; A Blaze, in which the writer links the discovery of a ‘bog girl’, ritually murdered thousands of years ago, to the Nazi killings of children with disabilities  and which the judges praised as “an original and brilliant story”; and to Sophie Berry …