Robin Robertson

Robin Robertson (born 1955 in Scone , Scotland ) is a British writer.

Life

Robin Robertson grew up on the Scottish northeast coast. He worked as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and Warburg, and then became editor of the literature program at Jonathan Cape . Over time, he has overseen editions of John Banville, John Burnside, Anne Carson, JM Coetzee, Seamus Deane, Anne Enright, Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, and Peter Redgrove. As editor of Ben Okri's poetry book Stars of the New Curfew in 1988, he later got into a dispute with Ben Okri over the scope of his editing. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . In 2015 he was promoted to the editorial board of Jonathan Cape.

Robertson's poems have appeared in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books . Various anthologies took up his poems. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry.

Robertson's first volume of poetry, A Painted Field , received the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. In 2004 he received the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . The poetry book The Wrecking Light was nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize in 2010 . In 2012 he was a winner of the Cholmondeley Award , won the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the TS Eliot Prize . In 2013 he and Adonis received the Petrarca Prize awarded in Germany .

The book The Long Take , a mixture of poetics and prose, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 and received the Goldsmiths Prize .

Works (selection)

• A Painted Field Picador . 1997, ISBN 978-0-330-35059-4
• Slow Air, Harcourt . 2002, ISBN 978-0-15-100746-2
• (Ed.): Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame . HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-075092-3
  • Unlucky artists! : the most embarrassing experiences of Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje and many others. Translation by Kathrin Razum, Claus Varrelmann. Munich: Goldmann, 2005 ISBN 978-3-442-45850-9
• Swithering . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2006. ISBN 978-0-15-603199-8 .
• Tomas Tranströmer , The Deleted World . Enitharmon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904634-51-5
• Euripides, Medea . Random House, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4070-1399-2
• The wrecking light . Picador. 2010. ISBN 978-0-330-51548-1
  • At the seal cape: poems . Translation Jan Wagner . Munich: Hanser, 2013 ISBN 978-3-446-24179-4
• Hill of Doors . Picador, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4472-3154-7
• Sailing the Forest . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-25534-3
• Euripides, Bacchae . Harper Collins, 2014, ISBN 978-0-0623-1966-1
• The Long Take . Picador, 2018. ISBN 9781509846887

Web links

• Literature by and about Robin Robertson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Robin Robertson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Robin Robertson , at Poetry Foundation
• Robin Robertson , at Poemhunter
• How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations , The Guardian, October 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alison Flood: Ben Okri erupts at editor over 'rewriting' claim , The Guardian, February 13, 2012
2. ↑ Editorial Changes at Jonathan Cape , July 13, 2015
3. ↑ John Banville: The Long Take by Robin Robertson review - a melancholy love song to America , review, The Guardian, March 24, 2018