John Burnside

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Scottish writer and academic (1955-2024)

United Kingdom WritersLived 1955 to 2024 · aged 69

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John Burnside was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets 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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2016Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

2008Cholmondeley Award

1998Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

1994Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

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