Peebles student wins Pushkin Prize for creative writing
Monday, May 29 2006
Sam Bruton, a second-year pupil at Peebles High School, has been awarded an International Pushkin Prize for creative writing.
Sam is one of just 10 winners in Scotland, and the only candidate from the Borders, to receive this top prize for his creative writing portfolio.
The prizes are dedicated to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, the great Russian writer who is often credited with revolutionising Russian literature. In Scotland these prestigious prizes are now in their 17th year and welcome entries from every Local Authority secondary school in Scotland, as well as schools in and around Pushkin's hometown of St Petersburg.
Ten winners are selected every year to join two winners from St Petersburg, where English language specialist schools operate a parallel competition, at a residential creative writing course where they enjoy individual and group tuition from professional writers.
Sam's prize is a week's residential writing course with Diana Hendry and Gerry Cambridge at the Moniack Mhor Writer's Centre
near Inverness.
For more information on The Pushkin Prizes visit the website www.pushkinprizes.net.
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