Douglas Dunn

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn OBE FRSL (born October 23, 1942 in Inchinnan , Renfrewshire , Scotland ) is a Scottish librarian , writer and university professor who has received the Hawthornden Prize , the Whitbread Book Award and the Cholmondeley Award .

Life

After completing school, Dunn first attended the Scottish School of Librarianship and then worked as a librarian in Scotland and Akron before studying English at the University of Hull , graduating with honors.

In 1969 he made his literary debut with the collection of poetry Terry Street , for which he received both the Scottish Art Council's Book Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award . The volume of poetry Love or Nothing , published in 1974 , also won the Scottish Arts Council's Book Award and was also awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1976.

For the book of poetry St. Kilda's Parliament (1981) he received the renowned Hawthornden Prize. In 1981 he also became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . He later accepted a professorship in English at the University of St Andrews and also became director of the Institute for Scottish Studies there. He was also a member of the Scottish Art Council between 1992 and 1994 and was also awarded an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Dundee and in literature from the University of Hull.

He also received a lot of attention for the 1985 poetry book Elegies , which he published after the death of his wife and which won the Whitbread Book Award for best book of 1985. Shortly thereafter, Secret Villages , a collection of short stories , appeared in 1985 , and in 1989 it also received the Cholmondeley Award, the Society of Authors' literary prize .

Dunn is also a regular contributor to articles and literary reviews for newspapers and magazines such as the Glasgow Herald , The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement . He has also written several radio plays , models for television films , anthologies and literary critical treatises and in 1990 also published 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) and New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003) were published. After Dunn, who lives in Scotland, was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 2003, he published the literary critical book Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry in 2006 . His own best-known poems include "Land Love", "A Removal from Terry Street", "Washing the Coins", "Loch Music" and "Tursac".

more publishments

The Happier Life , 1972
New Poetry: The PEN Anthology , editor, 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 , editor, 1976
Barbarians , 1979
The Poetry of Scotland , editor, 1979
A Rumored City: New Poets from Hull , editor, 1982
Europa's Lover , 1982
To Build a Bridge , 1982
Selected Poems , 1986
Going to Aberlemno , 1987
Under the Influence: Douglas Dunn on Philip Larkin , 1987
Northlight , 1988
The Poll Tax: The Fiscal Fake , 1990
Scotland: An Anthology , Editor, 1991
The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry , editor, 1992
Australian Dream Essay , 1993
Dante's Drum Kit , 1993
Garden Hints , 1993
Selected Poems: Alaisdair DF Macrae , 1993
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories , editor, 1995
Entering the Kingdom , Editor, 1998
Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page , 1998
Essays , 2003
Robert Browning: Poems Selected by Douglas Dunn , Editor, 2003

in German translation

Elegies , original title Elegies , translation by Evelyn Schlag , 1991, ISBN 3-10-015309-X

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personal data
SURNAME	Dunn, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish librarian, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Inchinnan , Renfrewshire , Scotland