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Poets' A-Z » Douglas
Dunn
Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942.
After working as a librarian in Scotland and Akron, Ohio,
he studied English at Hull University, graduating in 1969.
He then worked for eighteen months in the university library
after which, in 1971, he became a freelance writer. In 1991
he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the
University of St Andrews.
As well over ten collections of poetry, including Elegies
(1985), The Year's Afternoon and The Donkey's Ears
(both 2000), and Selected Poems 1964 - 1983 (Faber,
2004), Douglas Dunn has written several radio and television
plays, including Ploughman's Share and Scotsman
by Moonlight. He has also edited The Faber Book of
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000).
Douglas Dunn has won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey
Faber Memorial Prize, and has twice been awarded prizes by
the Scottish Arts Council. In 1981 he was awarded the Hawthornden
Prize for St Kilda's Parliament. In January 1986 he
was overall winner of the 1985 Whitbread Book of the Year
Award for his collection Elegies.
   
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