Amy Liptrot is a British journalist and author. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun (2016, Canongate Books, ISBN978-1782115472).[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. Writer in Orkney/London/Berlin. Reformed trampolinist, outdoor swimmer, author of The Outrun. Farming, birds, poetry, bass. Jan 25, 2016 Into this vibrant arena storms Amy Liptrot and her debut The Outrun, an uncompromising account of addiction and recovery played out against the blasted fields of Orkney. The book we have begun with is The Outrun by Amy Liptrot. In this unflinching debut, Amy Liptrot journeys like a modern day Viking to her birthplace in the Orkneys in a quest to both ground and heal herself. The Outrun is part-memoir, part travelogue, part apology and part love letter to the islands that begat her. “ I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited by sixty-seven moons ”. Available as Paperback, Downloadable audio, eBook. The Sunday Times runaway bestseller – an exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney. Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir for The Outrun. Formerly a writer for Orkney Today, editor of the Edinburgh Student, an artist’s model, and a trampolinist, she lives in Yorkshire.
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]
Liptrot lives in England with her only child, a son, and in 2019 had been without alcohol for eight years.[6]
Awards and honors[edit]
- PEN Ackerley Prize, 2017
- Wainwright Prize, 2016
References[edit]
The Outrun Amy Liptrot Youtube
- ^Sharp, Robert (6 July 2017). 'Amy Liptrot awarded PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 for 'The Outrun''. English PEN. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^'2016 prize'. Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Richardson, Simon (15 January 2016). 'The Outrun: Amy Liptrot on connecting with nature'. BBC Arts. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Amy Liptrot (3 January 2019). 'From Cinderella to Patrick Melrose: the best books about new beginnings'. The Guardian.
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