Douglas Dunn

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn OBE FRSL ( born October 23, 1942 in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland ) is a native of Scotland British librarian, writer and university teacher who. Among others, the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Book Award and the Cholmondeley Award was awarded

Life

After schooling Dunn first attended the Scottish School of Librarianship and was followed as a librarian in Scotland and worked in Akron, before he studied English at the University of Hull and this study graduated with honors.

In 1969 he made ​​his literary debut with the poetry collection Terry Street and received this book both the price of the Scottish Arts Council and the Somerset Maugham Award. The book of poems published in 1974 Love or Nothing was also honored with the Book Award from the Scottish Arts Council and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize was also awarded in 1976.

For the book of poems St. Kilda 's Parliament ( 1981) he received the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. In 1981 he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Later, he accepted an appointment as professor of English at the University of St Andrews and was also director of the Institute of Scottish Studies. In addition, he was between 1992 and 1994 Member of the Scottish Arts Council and was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Dundee and the literature of the University of Hull.

He received great attention for the published volume of poetry Elegies in 1985, he had published after the death of his wife, and was awarded the Whitbread Book Award for best book of the year 1985. Shortly thereafter, also 1985 Secret Villages appeared, a collection of short stories, and in 1989 he also received the Cholmondeley Award, the Literature Prize of the Society of Authors.

Dunn also writes regular articles and book reviews for newspapers and journals such as the Glasgow Herald, The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement. He has also written several radio plays, templates for television films, anthologies and literary critical essays and published in 1990 a translation of the tragedy Andromache by Jean Racine.

After the short story collection Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1995 ), the three volumes of poetry The Donkey 's Ears (2000), The Year's Afternoon ( 2000), New Selected Poems 1964-2000 published ( 2003). After Dunn, who lives in Scotland, was honored in 2003 with the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire, he in 2006 published the literary critical book Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry. His own known poems include " Country Love ", "A Removal from Terry Street ", " Washing the Coins ", " Music Hole " and " Tursac ".

More Releases

  • The Happier Life in 1972
  • New Poetry: The PEN Anthology, Publisher, 1973
  • A Choice of Byron's Verse, editor, 1974
  • Two Decades of Irish Writing, editor, 1975
  • What Is To Be Given: Poems of Delamore Schwartz, editors, 1976
  • Barbarians, 1979
  • The Poetry of Scotland, Publisher, 1979
  • A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull, editors, 1982
  • Europe 's Lover, 1982
  • To Build a Bridge, 1982
  • Selected Poems, 1986
  • Going to Aberlemno, 1987
  • North Light, 1988
  • The Poll Tax: The Fiscal Fake, 1990
  • Scotland: An Anthology, Publisher, 1991
  • The Faber Book of Twentieth - Century Scottish Poetry, Publisher, 1992
  • Australian Dream- Essay, 1993
  • Dante 's Drum Kit, 1993
  • Garden Hints, 1993
  • Selected Poems: Alaisdair D. F. Macrae, 1993
  • The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories, editor, 1995
  • Entering the Kingdom, Publisher, 1998
  • Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page 1998
  • Essays, 2003
  • Elegies, original title Elegies, translated by Evelyn shock, 1991, ISBN 3-10-015309- X
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