A SCOTTISH writer has said it is “heartwarming” to be nominated for a prestigious literary award for his latest poetry collection.
Michael Pedersen, who currently serves as writer in residence at Edinburgh University, has picked up a nomination in the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards in the poetry category.
“So to know this is cast wider is really heartwarming. There’s no greater accolade than to know they’re connecting with the people who are reading and recommending your books.”Although he’s turned his love for literature into a career now, Pedersen in fact started life as a lawyer. On the award-nominated collection, he said: “It’s my most personal, my most honest and risky but also my most experimental.
Although he says that there was “no intention” to publish this collection precisely 10 years later, Pedersen admits it gave him a nice opportunity to look back.
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