Top award for Eden writer (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Top award for Eden writer
9:00am Friday 7th December 2012 in News
AN EDEN writer and creative writing tutor has won a top book award – with a prize of £10,000.
Sarah Hall, from Bampton, scooped the Portico Prize for Literature, for her short story collection The Beautiful Indifference.
And it was an extra-special occasion as she also won the biennial award last time round in 2010 – making her the first author to have done the ‘Portico double’.
The Portico Prize is awarded to two works – one fiction and one non fiction – based wholly, or largely in the north of England.
