词条 | John Burnside |
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For the American gay activist and inventor (1916-2008), see John Burnside (inventor).{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}{{Use British English|date=September 2017}} John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. He is one of only two poets (the other being Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (Black Cat Bone). Life and worksBurnside studied English and European Thought and Literature 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 Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University.,[1] where he teaches 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 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 is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and 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. 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 writes an occasional nature column for New Statesman. In 2011 he received the Petrarca-Preis, a major German international literary prize. Burnside's work is inspired by his engagement with nature, environment and deep ecology.[2] His collection of short stories, Something Like Happy, was published in 2013. He is 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.[3] Awards
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Footnotes1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/academicstaff/burnside/ | title=Staff Profile, University of St Andrews | accessdate=25 March 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web | url=http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Literature/People/B/BurnsideJohn/ | title=Profile of John Burnside | publisher=Christchurch City Libraries | accessdate=25 March 2012}} 3. ^https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html 4. ^{{cite web|title=Shortlist announced for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2011|url=http://www.englishpen.org/news/_1697/|accessdate=25 July 2011}} 5. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2012/jan/16/ts-eliot-prize-john-burnside-podcast | title=Burnside, who has won the TS Eliot prize for 2011 for Black Cat Bone, talks to Claire Armitstead | publisher=The Guardian | accessdate=25 March 2012 | location=London | date=16 January 2012}} External links
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