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John Burnside FRSL FRSE (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 one book (Black Cat Bone). In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize. Life and works Burnside was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and raised in Cowdenbeath and Corby. He studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he was a freelance writer after 1996. He was a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and was Professor in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, where he taught creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections by Burnside 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. His 2011 collection, Black Cat Bone, was awarded The Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Burnside was also the author of two collections of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and Something Like Happy (2013), as well as several novels, including The Dumb House (1997), The Devil's Footprints, (2007), Glister, (2009) and A Summer of Drowning, (2011). His multi-award winning memoir, A Lie About My Father, was published in 2006 and its successor, Waking Up In Toytown, in 2010. A Lie About My Father earned him the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year in 2006, alongside the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Non-fiction Book of the Year and the CORINE International Literature Prize. In 2008 he won the Cholmondeley Award. A further memoir, I Put A Spell On You, combined personal history with reflections on romantic love, magic and popular music. His short stories and feature essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Guardian and The London Review of Books, among others. He also wrote an occasional nature column for the New Statesman. In 2011 he received the Petrarca-Preis, a major German international literary prize. Burnside's work was inspired by his engagement with nature, environment and deep ecology. His collection of short stories, Something Like Happy, was published in 2013. Burnside was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected in 1999) and in March 2016 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters. He also lectured annually and oversaw the judging of the writing prize at the Alpine Fellowship. Burnside died after a short illness on 29 May 2024, at the age of 69. Awards Bibliography Poetry collections Fiction Non-fiction Screen Dice (with A. L. Kennedy), a series for television, produced by Cité-Amérique, Canada Critical studies John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2020). "Dwelling Places: An Appreciation of John Burnside", special edition of Agenda magazine, Vol. 45, No 4/Vol. 46, No 1, Spring/Summer 2011 References External links Profile at the British Council Profile at the Poetry Archive Profile on the Scottish Poetry Library website, with recordings of him reading his poems, and links to poem texts "Walk the tightrope" – a short essay in November 2011 issue of the New Humanist Archive of Article in the Spring 2007 issue of Tate etc. magazine John Burnside at The New Statesman Profile and article listing at The Guardian Scottish Arts Council September 2004 Poem of the Month Archived 31 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine: "homage to Kåre Kivijärvi" John Burnside at IMDb John Burnside discography at Discogs. Discover the John Burnside popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Burnside books.
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Tir Eoghain
Nora BrabhamBeckley, WV (Release Date TBD) A heartwarming story of John Burnsides family, friends, and early years awaits readers in author Nora Brabhams Tir Eoghain: The Life and Times of J...
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Testament
Robert CrawfordTo make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh fulllength collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether ...
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Ich und meine Mutter
Vivian GornickVivian Gornick ist eine Entdeckung!Mütter sind anstrengend und bleiben es ein Leben lang. Schon als Kind spürt Vivian Gornick bei ihrer Mutter eine blinde Wut über deren Schicksal ...
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Swansong
Kerry Andrew‘Swansong is the real thing, right from the start: spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its telling…this is a brilliant ...
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Unfinished Business
Michael BracewellUNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world m...
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Fair Helen
Andrew GreigShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014. 'One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous ski...
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John Burnside
Ben DaviesCelebrated as a poet, novelist and nonfiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait...
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The Catch
Fiona SampsonFiona Sampson’s latest collection transforms the sensory world into an astonishingly new and vivid poetry. Here, dream and myth, creatures real and imagined, and the sights and sou...