Amy Liptrot

Amy Liptrot is a Scottish journalist and author. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun (2016, Canongate Books, ISBN 978-1782115472).[1][2]

Biography

The Outrun describes her experience of returning to live in Orkney, where she grew up on a farm, to continue her rehabilitation after ten years in London, during which she had resorted to alcoholism and drug use.[3][4][5]

As of 2019 Liptrot had been without alcohol for eight years. She has a child born at Christmas 2018.[6]

She contributed "Swimming Away From My Baby", an essay on wild swimming, to Antlers of Water, a compendium of Scottish nature writing produced during COVID-19 lockdown and edited by Kathleen Jamie.[7][8]

Her book The Instant is to be published in 2022, and describes the year she spent living in Berlin after the period covered in The Outrun.[9]

Awards and honours

References
  1. Sharp, Robert (6 July 2017). "Amy Liptrot awarded PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 for 'The Outrun'". English PEN. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  2. "2016 prize". Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. Richardson, Simon (15 January 2016). "The Outrun: Amy Liptrot on connecting with nature". BBC Arts. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  4. Adams, Matthew (15 January 2016). "Amy Liptrot interview: How the writer drowned in London - and rescued herself on the shores of Orkney". The Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  5. Liptrot, Amy (17 January 2016). "'I swam in the cold ocean and dyed my hair a furious blue… I was moving upwards slowly'". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  6. Amy Liptrot (3 January 2019). "From Cinderella to Patrick Melrose: the best books about new beginnings". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  7. McDonald, Sally (8 September 2020). "A wild year: Writer on why lockdown has helped Scots enjoy the everyday wonders of nature". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 12 September 2021. Includes an extract from Liptrot's essay
  8. "Antlers of Water by Kathleen Jamie - Canongate Books". canongate.co.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  9. Comerford, Ruth (24 March 2021). "Canongate acquires Liptrot's Outrun follow-up". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 September 2021.


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