Society of Authors Awards and Prizes Winner: Collette Paul for Tom-Gallon Award for a short story South Bank Show Awards Nominations: Ashley Page for work with Scottish Ballet, Ian Hamilton Finlay for Sentences at Inverleith House, Edinburgh Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh International Festival Winner: Phil Nicol for Best Actor Nomination: Vanishing Point for Best Ensemble TS Eliot Prize for poetry Winner: Carol Anne Duffy – Rapture Shortlisted: Polly Clark – Take me with you Talente Rebecca Wilson TMA Theatre Awards Winners: Ian McDiarmid for Best Performance in a Play; Pyrenees by David Greig, Tron Theatre Company and Paines Plough in association with Watford Palace for Best New Play Nominations: Scottish Opera for Achievement in Opera; Joe McFadden for Best Performance in a Musical TOTAL Theatre Awards Winner: Grid Iron for The Devil’s Larder Nomination: Vanishing Point Turner Prize Winner: Simon Starling Shortlist: Jim Lambie Whitbread Awards for First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, and Children’s Book plus Book of the Year Winner: Ali Smith – The Accidental for the Whitbread Novel Award Shortlisted: Richard Price – Lucky Day...