Award for Animal ABC
University-based lexicographer and author Susan Rennie and her publishers Black & White have been awarded the Saltire Society/Times Education Scotland educational publications award for the book Animal ABC.
Written in Scots, the book is aimed for younger children and was recognised as being a best example of published non-fiction work which enhances the teaching and learning of an aspect or aspects of the curriculum of Scottish schools.
Susan is also currently involved in the scots language dictionary project, based at the university, which aims to make the key Scots language dictionaries available on the internet.
Dundee’s Literary Lives Vol 1: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century
by Andrew Murray Scott.
Abertay Historical Society:
ISBN 0 900019 38 7
The oldest known Scottish poem The Goddodin was written near Dundee in the sixth century and during the Reformation and Renaissance some of the most influential writers in Europe including the Wedderburn brothers and Hector Boece were Dundonians. In 1660 the first full-length work of fiction written in Scotland was penned in the city whose guest-list includes Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Walter Scott, Robert Burns and Charles Dickens.
Andrew Murray Scott explores the Victorian age over three chapters and considers dozens of working class ‘poets of protest’ and the hundreds of self-styled ‘bards’ including William McGonagall as well as the newspapers and magazines which made Dundee such an important cultural centre. Many important and neglected writers are considered; Robert Nicoll, James Gow, Robert Mudie, Robert Leighton, Frances Wright, George Gilfillan, James Young Geddes, David Pae and W.D. Latto.
Andrew Murray Scott is the author of twelve books including three novels and nine works of non-fiction and has been actively involved in the cultural life of Dundee as a writer and editor since the 1970s. He is a graduate of the University of Dundee.