Iain Bamforth was born in 1959 into a Plymouth Brethren family and grew up in Glasgow, where he attended the university. He is a poet, doctor and scientific translator. He lives and runs his own practice in Strasbourg, and contributes regularly to a number of periodicals including PN Review, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review. . His poetry collection, Sons and Pioneers (1992), received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award in 1992. He is also the author of The Body in the Library: A Literary History of Modern Medicine (Verso, 2003), a collection of philosophical and instructive essays on medicine and modernity.

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Related links

› Iain Bamforth at Carcanet Press

› Read the Guardian review of A Place in the World

› Iain Bamforth at the British Council's Contemporary Writers Database

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