Don Paterson
Don Paterson, OBE (born in 1963 in Dundee ) is a multiple award -winning Scottish author and jazz musician.
Life and work
Paterson left school at age 16 to work as a musician. In 1984 he went to London, where he took guitar lessons with Derek Bailey and played in Ken Hyder's Talisker band. At this time he also began to deal with poetry and to write yourself. Since the late 1980s, Paterson was active with his jazz band Lammas, in which, inter alia, Tim Garland, Talvin Singh, Christine Tobin played. Lammas released five albums.
After a few years in Brighton Paterson in 1993 Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee. In 1995 he returned to London, where he took a job as an editor at Picador. When he moved to Edinburgh in 1998, he began columnist for Scotland on Sunday and video game reviews for The Times to write. Since 2000 he is also professor at the University of St Andrews. In addition to several private collections of poems he published translations of poems of Antonio Machado and Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, wrote aphorisms, plays, theater plays, inter alia, for the Dundee Repertory Theatre and music Tommy Smith and edited anthologies.
Paterson is considered one of the greatest literary talents of his generation. His witty poetry mixes the traditional with the modern and post often is full of ironic or ambiguous philosophical and metaphysical allusions. As a musician, he is also in poetry a sense of rhythm and sound.
Paterson's first collection of poems published in 1993 Nil Nil won the Forward Poetry Prize, which he received for the collection Rain for the poem " Love Poem For Natalie ' Tusja ' Beridze " and 2009 in 2008. God's Gift to Women (1997 ) won the TS Eliot Prize, as well Landing Light ( 2003), which was also awarded the Whitbread Book Award. In 2010, Paterson received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.