Central Library adviser, Stewart Sanderson, has been awarded the Jessie Kesson Fellowship award 2019 for his poetry.
Established in 2009 by Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre, the Jessie Kesson Fellowship Award was set up to honour Jessie Kesson’s inspirational life and work.
Stewart works as a library adviser in the Edinburgh and Scottish Collection of Central Library, and has already received several awards and commendations for his own work.
After completing a PhD at the University of Glasgow, which addresses the role of translation in twentieth-century Scottish poetry Stewart’s own versions from French and from Russian have been included in recent publications.
A first pamphlet of poems, Fios, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2015, and Sanderson is currently working towards his first full-length collection.
Stewart will be able to develop his work and expand his practice as he will be staying at Moniack Mhor for three weeks in March.
