John Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Reader in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.

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  • John Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Reader in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Burnside is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and several novels, including The Dumb House (1997), The Mercy Boys (1999) (winner of the Encore Award) and The Locust Room (2001), which is set in Cambridge in 1975, and explores the consequences of a series of violent rapes. His poetry collection, The Good Neighbour (2005), was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection). He also occasionally writes a column for The Guardian newspaper. Burnside was one of the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize.
  • John Burnside est un écrivain écossais né à Dunfermline le 19 mars 1955.
  • Ha studiato letteratura inglese e lingue europee al "Cambridge College of Arts and Technology ". Assunto come ingegnere di software per computer fu scrittore freelance fino al 1996. Si è specializzato in Scrittura presso l'"University of Dundee " ed ha insegnato scrittura creativa presso la "St Andrews University " in Scozia. Le sue aree di specializzazione includono scrittura creativa, ecologia, letteratura poesia e filosofia. La sua prima raccolta di poesie, "The Hoop", è stata pubblicata nel 1988 e ha vinto lo "Scottish Arts Council Book Award ". Tra le altre raccolte di poesie si ricordano "Common Knowledge" del 1991, "Feast Days" del 1992, vincitrice del "Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" e "The Asylum Dance" del 2000 con la quale vinse il "Whitbread Poetry Award " e fu candidato al "Forward Poetry Prize " per la migliore raccolta dell'anno (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) e al "T. S. Eliot Prize" per "The Light Trap" del 2001. Le sue più recenti pubblicazioni includono la raccolta di poesie "The Light Trap" che è stata nella rosa dei candidati per il Premio "T. S. Eliot", "Gift Songs", le novelle "Living Nowhere" e "The Devil's Footprints" (Jonathan Cape, 2007). John Burnside è anche autore di una raccolta di romanzi brevi pubblicata nel 2000 con il titolo "Burning Elvis", e di una serie di racconti, tra i quali sono inclusi "The Dumb House", "The Mercy Boys" e "The Locust Room". La sua raccolta di poesie, "The Good Neighbour", è stata ammessanel 2005 per il "Forward Poetry Prize" (Best Collection). Burnside è stato selezionato per il "Griffin Poetry Prize " del 2007. Sta preparando un saggio sulla poesia, l’arte visiva e l’ecologia . Attualmente è Professore di letteratura inglese presso il "Mount St. Mary's College " di Los Angeles. Ed è il più esperto ed autorevole critico letterario di Ecopoesie. Ha pubblicato su questo argomemto "Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction", nel 2002 "Salt Lake City" con l'"University of Utah Press" e nel 2005 "The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry" con l'"University of Iowa Press", 2005. In collaborazione con Roger Thompson ha scritto alcuni volumi per il "Dictionary of Literary Biography " (Biografie di Poeti e scrittori della Natura).
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  • John Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Reader in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
  • John Burnside est un écrivain écossais né à Dunfermline le 19 mars 1955.
  • Ha studiato letteratura inglese e lingue europee al "Cambridge College of Arts and Technology ". Assunto come ingegnere di software per computer fu scrittore freelance fino al 1996. Si è specializzato in Scrittura presso l'"University of Dundee " ed ha insegnato scrittura creativa presso la "St Andrews University " in Scozia. Le sue aree di specializzazione includono scrittura creativa, ecologia, letteratura poesia e filosofia.
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