Author, whose book was rejected 44 times, has won a £25,000 Scottish literary prize with a ‘mesmerising’ work

AUTHOR John Spurling has won a £25,000 literary prize with a “mesmerising” book that was rejected 44 times before being published.

He was awarded the sixth Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel set in imperial China, The Ten Thousand Things.

The book is set in 14th-century China, during the final years of the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty, and is the story of Wang Meng, one of the era’s four great masters of painting.

From Author, whose book was rejected 44 times, has won a £25,000 Scottish literary prize with a ‘mesmerising’ work – Daily Record

June 14, 2015 by Blake Uncategorized 0

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