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This is a list of winners of the Dundee International Book Prize by year.
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This is a list of winners of the Dundee International Book Prize by year.
| Year | Author | Title | Genre(s) | Nationality |
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| 2000 | Andrew Murray Scott | Tumulus | Novel |  United Kingdom |
| 2002 | Claire-Marie Watson | The Curewife | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2005 | Malcolm Archibald | Whales for the Wizard | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2007 | Fiona Dunscombe | The Triple Point of Water | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2009 | Chris Longmuir | Dead Wood | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2010 | Alan Wright | Act of Murder | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Simon Ashe-Brown | Nothing Human Left | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2012 | Jacob M. Appel | The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up | Novel |  United States |
| 2013 | Nicola White | In the Rosary Garden | Novel |  Ireland |
| 2014 | Amy Mason | The Other Ida | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2015 | Martin Cathcart Froden | Devil Take the Hindmost | Novel |  Sweden |
| 2016 | Jessica Thummel | The Cure for Lonely | Novel | United States |
Andrew Murray Scott's book Tumulus (inaugural winner 2000) detailed bohemian Dundee through the 60s and 70s to the present day. The judges said that it "reveals a great knowledge and love of Dundee while paying the city the compliment of being intelligently amused by various aspects of its life and outlook". [1]
Claire-Marie Watson's The Curewife (2002) drew on the tale of Dundee's last execution of a witch – Grissel Jaffray in 1669. Hilary Mantel said that it won as it had a "highly charged atmosphere and its real sense of the dark and brooding". [2]
Malcolm Archibald's Whales for a Wizard (2005) was an adventure story based around the whaling industry in Dundee in the 1860s. It was called an "old-fashioned, traditional, rip-roaring adventure story" by Ian Rankin. [3]
Fiona Dunscombe's The Triple Point of Water (2007) drew on her experiences of working in Soho during the 1980s.[ citation needed ]
Chris Longmuir's Dead Wood (2009) was a grizzly crime novel set in a world of violence and gangland retribution. The List calls it "lacklustre", "Flat and clunky", and "a poor addition to the Scottish crime genre". [4]
Alan Wright's Act of Murder (2010) was a tale of magic, poisonings and thespians, with some gruesome murders thrown in for good measure set in Victorian times in Lancashire. [5] It was called a "worthy winner for a prize" in a review by Fife Today. [6]
Simon Ashe-Browne's Nothing Human Left (2011) was a psychological thriller set in a Dublin public school as a schoolboy's criminal desires reach a frightening conclusion. [7]
Jacob Appel's The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up was a satire of post-9/11 patriotism in the United States, called by Stephen Fry, a 2012 judge, "darkly comic", and fellow judge Philip Pullman called it "Engaging, funny, ingenious, even charming". [8]
Nicola White's 2013 winner In the Rosary Garden (2013) is a murder mystery set in a convent school; [9] [10] being described by critics as "as good as it gets", A. L. Kennedy, a 2013 judge. called it "courageous and intelligent" [11]
Amy Mason's The Other Ida won the 2014 prize. [12] The novel focuses on two sisters in the wake of their mother's death; their struggle and the tension between the siblings play out as the two attempt to come to terms with loss. [13]
Martin Cathcart Froden's Devil Take the Hindmost takes place in London during the 1920s and revolves around a cyclist caught up in the fevered bets and loan sharks of the velodrome racing scene. [14]
The final prize was awarded to Jessica Thummel's The Cure for Lonely. [15]
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