Amy Liptrot is a Scottish journalist and author. She won the 2016 Wainwright Prize and the 2017 Ackerley Prize for her memoir The Outrun.
Biography
Amy Liptrot grew up on a farm in
Orkney and studied at the University of Edinburgh.
She lived in London for ten years, resorting to alcohol and drug use. After losing her job, her home, and her boyfriend because of her
alcoholism, she returned to Orkney to rehabilitate. She recorded her experiences there in her first book,
The Outrun, published in 2016.
She gave birth to a child in December 2018. Liptrot had been without alcohol for eight years.
As of 2024, Liptrot lives in
Hebden Bridge in
West Yorkshire, England.
She contributed an essay on wild swimming to Antlers of Water, a compendium of Scottish nature writing produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.[ Includes an extract from Liptrot's essay]
Honours and distinctions
Bibliography
Adaptations
In January 2022, it was announced that
Nora Fingscheidt would direct a film adaptation of
The Outrun, and that
Saoirse Ronan would star in it as Liptrot, and produce it.
Filming began in 2022 in Orkney.
The film
The Outrun premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
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