Author Cormac McCarthy honored in Scotland

Published: Aug. 26, 2007 at 1:35 PM

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- American author Cormac McCarthy has garnered the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in Scotland to go along with his Pulitzer Prize.

McCarthy won the award for his 10th novel, “The Road,” which is also now considered the winner of best novel of the year, the BBC reported Sunday. The honor comes just four months after he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

McCarthy, 74, was not able to receive the award in person at the ceremony at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Both he and Byron Rogers, who won in the biography category, will receive about $20,142. McCarthy

"Each of the shortlisted authors is prize-worthy,” said Judge Professor Colin Nicholson of the University of Edinburgh. "But my fellow judge, Roger Savage, agrees with me that for imaginative impact and page-turning readability, the two winning books are both destined to become classics in their respective genres."

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