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Poets' A-Z » Christopher
Whyte
Christopher Whyte was born in 1952 in Glasgow. He moved to
Italy after graduating from Cambridge University in 1973,
and lived in Rome until returning to Scotland in 1985. He
began publishing poetry in Gaelic in 1987: his first poetry
collection Uirsgeul/Myth was joint winner of a Saltire
Award in 1992, and his second An Tràth Duilich
(in Gaelic only) in 2002. He is not a native Gaelic speaker,
but his work as poet, editor and critic shows his great commitment
to the Gaelic language.
He has also published four novels in English, the most recent
being The Cloud Machinery (2000) and The Gay
Decameron (1998). As a translator he has published translations
of poetry from German, Italian, Croatian, Catalan and Gaelic
into English; from Modern Greek, Russian, German, Italian
and Croatian into Gaelic; and from Gaelic into Italian. His
own poems have been translated into six languages. He is now
a freelance writer, having been Reader in the Department of
Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.
 
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