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Bust of Douglas Dunn at Edinburgh Park. Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University .
b.1942. POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICISM. Douglas Dunn is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic, whose Elegies (1985), a moving account of his first wife’s death, became a critical and popular success. His books – including ten collections of poetry and two of short stories, and a translation of Racine’s Andromache – are consistently ...
Professore di inglese all'University of Saint Andrews (1991), dal 1993 è direttore del Saint Andrews Scottish Studies Institute. Ha ottenuto numerosi premi letterari, dal Somerset Maugham Award nel 1972 al Book of the Year Award nel 1986.
Douglas Dunn, Scottish writer and critic best known for his poems evoking working-class British life. His notable collections included Terry Street, St. Kilda’s Parliament, and Elegies, the latter of which won the Whitbread Book Award (now the Costa Book Award). Learn more about Dunn’s life and work.
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Scottish poet, editor, and critic Douglas Dunn grew up in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. After attending the Scottish School of Librarianship in Glasgow, Dunn landed a library job in Akron, Ohio. When he was drafted to serve in Vietnam, he left the United States and returned to Great Britain to study at…
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham nell'Enciclopedia Treccani - Treccani - Treccani. Poeta scozzese (n. Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, 1942), noto soprattutto per i suoi lavori sulla classe operaia britannica. Ha scritto anche racconti, commedie per la radio e per la televisione e saggi. Vita. Si è laureato in inglese all'univ. di Hull nel 1969.
Douglas Dunn (b. 1942) was awarded an OBE in 2003 for his services to literature over a career that includes many books of plays, poems, essays and fiction, as author and editor, and awards such as the Hawthornden Prize, the Cholmondely Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Elegies, probably his best-known work.
