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]
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]
Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and has written a regular column for Caught By The River - out of which The Outrun emerged. As well as writing for. Read our interview with Amy Liptrot. Tags: Amy Liptrot, Canongate, extract, nature, Orkney, Scotland, technology, The Otrun, UK. Previous post Amy Liptrot: Wired and watchful Next post Intrigue and discovery. From sisterly love to. With 20 contributors, the writing ranges from wild swimming with prize-winning Orcadian author Amy Liptrot, to a house-invading blackbird with Lockerbie-based Saltire award-winner Em Strang. Amy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun (4.02 avg rating, 6962 ratings, 835 reviews, published 2015), The Weatherhouse (3.58 avg rating, 110 ratings, 23. Amy Liptrot’s astonishing debut memoir The Outrun is a brutally honest tale of inglorious addiction in hipster-central Hackney, and a lyrical meditation on the long path to recovery after she washes up back home on the clifftops of Orkney. Plunging into nature on the remotest islands, she dissects her desperate descent into alcoholism and the.
Liptrot lives in England with her only child, a son, and in 2019 had been without alcohol for eight years.[6]
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Awards and honors[edit]
- PEN Ackerley Prize, 2017
- Wainwright Prize, 2016
References[edit]
- ^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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Book Summary
Amy Liptrot
The Outrun is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island and city, and about the ability of the sea, the land, the wind, and the moon to restore life and renew hope.
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When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey.
Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and her father's mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London.
Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney's wildlife - puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings - and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey toward recovery from addiction.