Anne Donovan (author)

Anne Donovan (born c. 1956, Coatbridge) is a Scottish author. She is best known for her novel Buddha Da (2003), which won her the Scottish Arts Council Award and Le Prince Maurice Award and saw her shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, Whitbread Book Award for First Novel and Scottish Book of the Year. Donovan writes in the Scots, specifically the Glaswegian dialect, and has been praised for writing about the lives of "ordinary people." Several of her short stories have been part of the National 5 set texts since 2012.