John Burnside
Scottish writer and academic (1955-2024) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 69
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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2024Died29 May 20242016Fellow of the Royal Society of EdinburghAward2008Cholmondeley AwardAward1998Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1994Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeAward1955Born19 March 1955
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United Kingdom
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Deceased
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Lived 1955 to 2024 · aged 69
