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John Burnside was born in 1955 and now lives in Fife. He has published ten collections of poetry, most recently The Good Neighbour (Jonathan Cape, 2005) and Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2006).

His seventh collection, The Asylum Dance, won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prize. He has also published five works of fiction, including, most recently, Living Nowhere (2004), and the memoir A Lie About My Father (2006). 

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