Dilys Rose is a Scottish people Fiction and poet. Born in 1954 in Glasgow, Rose studied at Edinburgh University,
Awards and honours
Rose has won many awards, including the Canongate Prize, the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, and a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award; she has also been awarded a Society of Authors travel bursary and a UNESCO City of Literature exchange fellowship.
Her poem 'Sailmaker's Palm' won the 2006 McCash Poetry Prize,
[ Scots Language Centre announcement] and her poetry collection
Bodywork was shortlisted for the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rose's novel
Red Tides won the 1993 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.
Selected works
Poetry
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Madame Doubtfire's Dilemma, Chapman, 1989
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When I Wear My Leopard Hat: Poems for Young Children (illustrated by Gill Allan), Scottish Children's Press, 1997
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Lure, Chapman, 2003
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Bodywork, Luath, 2007
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Stone the Crows, Mariscat, 2020
Fiction
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Our Lady of the Pickpockets, Secker & Warburg, 1989
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Red Tides, Secker & Warburg, 1993
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War Dolls, Headline Review, 1998
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Pest Maiden, Headline Review, 1999 -
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Lord of Illusions, Luath Press, 2005 - "proves adept at swiftly establishing a mood"
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Selected Stories, Luath Press, 2005
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Pelmanism, Luath Press, 2014
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Unspeakable, Freight Books, 2017
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Sea Fret, Scotland Street Press, 2022
Short stories
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Sea Fret, Scotland Street Press, 2022
