Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador) is a verse novel written in the Orkney dialect and comes with a parallel English translation.
Author Harry Joseph Giles received a trophy in the form of a commemorative engraved bookend and prize money to the value of £2022.00; a tradition that sees the annual prize money rise incrementally by year from the year 2001 in memory of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Chair of the Judges, Dr. Andrew M. Butler commented:
“This year the judges considered about a hundred novels with remarkable commitment and rigour. Every stage of zooming in on the winner was the conversation of informed readers at the top of their game. Deep Wheel Orcadia is the sort of book that makes you rethink what sf can do and makes the reading experience feel strange in a new and thrilling way. It’s as if language itself becomes the book’s hero and the genre is all the richer for it.”
Source: Arthur C. Clarke Award
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