Walter Scott Prize 2022

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction was founded in 2009 and is awarded at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland. The prize honours the achievements of the founding father of the historical novel.

2023 Shortlist

THESE DAYS by Lucy Caldwell (Faber)

THE GEOMETER LOBACHEVSKY by Adrian Duncan (Tuskar Rock Press)

ACT OF OBLIVION by Robert Harris (Hutchinson Heinemann)

THE CHOSEN by Elizabeth Lowry (Riverrun)

THE SUN WALKS DOWN by Fiona McFarlane (Allen & Unwin Australia)

ANCESTRY by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

I AM NOT YOUR EVE by Devika Ponnambalam (Bluemoose)

Winner announced~ June 2022

NEWS OF THE DEAD by James Robertson (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist~ March 2022

THE MAGICIAN by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

FORTUNE by Amanda Smyth (Peepal Tree Press)

ROSE NICOLSON by Andrew Greig (Riverrun)

NEWS OF THE DEAD by James Robertson (Hamish Hamilton)

2021 Past Winner - The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel