A BURNSIDE writer whose debut novel scooped Scotland’s biggest crime fiction prize has said he is “floored” to have won.
crimeCallum McSorley, whose darkly comic book Squeaky Clean was awarded the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023, said it was a “big, big surprise.”Callum said: “It's absolutely incredible. My jaw hit the floor when I heard my name being read out. I was sitting next to the other finalists, all of them previous prize-winners, so I felt it was quite unlikely to be me.
Squeaky Clean, which also features “Glasgow’s least popular police detective, Ally McCoist”, is about a car wash employee who takes the wrong customer’s motor for a ride and finds himself up to his neck in the city's criminal underworld.
Since then, his stories have appeared in various publications, including Gutter Magazine and New WritingHe lives in Burnside with his wife Lisa, who is a paediatrician, four-year-old son Elliot and daughter Nina, who is one. After the presentation, Callum made a touching tribute to his wife and his mum, Marion.
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