John Burnside

John Burnside ( born March 19, 1955 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ) is a Scottish writer.

Life

Burnside studied at Cambridge at the former College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University ) English and European languages. He then worked in the development of computer software before freelance writer in 1996.

Burnside was Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now (2011) professor of creative writing at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He writes a column in The Guardian and in 2007 was one of the judges at the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, 2011, he was a juror for the Manchester Fiction Prize.

Awards (selection)

  • 2000 Whitbread Book Award for The Asylum Dance
  • 2008 Cholmondeley Award
  • 2011 Petrarch Prize jointly with Florjan Lipuš
  • 2011 International Corine Literature Prize for lying about my father
  • 2011 Forward Poetry Prize for poetry collection Black Cat Bone
  • 2011 TS Eliot Prize ( United Kingdom ) for Poetry for Black Cat Bone
  • 2012: Spycher Literature Price Leuk together with Judith Schalansky

Works (selection)

  • The Hoop. Carcanet Poetry, Manchester, 1988, ISBN 0-85635-742-1; awarded the Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
  • Common Knowledge, Specker & Warburg, London 1991.; also excellent there.
  • Feast Days. 1992; Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
  • The Asylum Dance. , 2000.
  • The Light Trap. Jonathan Cape, London 2002, ISBN 0-2240-6177-1. German Test on the light. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23496-3.
  • The Myth of the Town. Jonathan Cape, London 1995.
  • The Dumb House. Jonathan Cape, London 1997.
  • The Mercy Boys. Jonathan Cape, London 1999; awarded the Encore Award.
  • Burning Elvis. Short Stories, Jonathan Cape, London, 2000.
  • The Locust Room. Jonathan Cape, London, 2001. e-book: Random House UK, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-4481-1427-6.
  • German: The trace of the devil. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-73997-4.
  • German: Glister. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-74219-6.
  • German: In the bright summer nights. Knaus, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8135-0460-6.
  • A Lie About My Father. , 2006. German: lies about my father. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8135-0315-9.
  • Alex Finlay: Love for Love, an Anthology of Love Poems. Pocket Books Morningstar Publications, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2000, ISBN 0-7486-6276-6.
  • Wallace Stevens: Poems selected by John Burnside. Faber & Faber, London, 2008.
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