Burnside, John, 1955-

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Name (Latin)
Burnside, John, 1955-
Date of birth
1955-03-19
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Creative writing
Ecology
Fiction
Poetry
Short stories
Occupation
College teachers
Authors
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 71543705
Wikidata: Q977057
Library of congress: nr 88008553
BGU10: 000023759
Sources of Information
  • Wikipedia, 16 October 2019(John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline; a former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996; is now Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University where he teaches creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry; His first collection of poetry, The Hoop; is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and several novels)
  • His The hoop, 1988:t.p. (John Burnside) cover p. 4 (b. Dumfermline, Fife, 1955)
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Wikipedia description:

John Burnside (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book – in this case, for Black Cat Bone in 2011. In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize in recognition of his full body of work.

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