Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is a Scottish writer and performer whose work spans poetry, fiction, games, and performance art, often exploring themes of language, identity, and Scottish politics. Their poetry collection Deep Wheel Orcadia, written entirely in the Orcadian dialect of Scots, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award — the first poetry collection ever to do so. Set on a space station inspired by Orkney, the work is a remarkable fusion of science fiction and linguistic heritage. Giles's audiobooks offer listeners innovative, boundary-crossing literary work that celebrates the power and beauty of minority languages and marginalised perspectives.