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Amy Liptrot is a Scottish journalist and author. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun.[1][2]

Biography

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]

In January 2022, it was announced that Nora Fingscheidt would direct the film adaptation of The Outrun with Saoirse Ronan starring and producing it.[6] Filming began in 2022 in Orkney.[7][8]

As of 2019^[update] Liptrot had been without alcohol for eight years. She has a child born at Christmas 2018.[9]

She contributed "Swimming Away From My Baby", an essay on wild swimming, to Antlers of Water, a compendium of Scottish nature writing produced during COVID-19 lockdown and edited by Kathleen Jamie.[10][11]

Her book The Instant was published in 2022, and describes the year she spent living in Berlin after the period covered in The Outrun.[12][13]

Awards and honours

• PEN Ackerley Prize, 2017
• Wainwright Prize, 2016

References

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