Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet, raised in Currie, Edinburgh. She gained an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
Regarded as one of the most gifted contemporary poets in the UK, she won the Forward Poetry Prize for poetry in 2004 for The Tree House. Other books of poetry include The Queen of Sheba, (1994), The Way We Live (1987), Jizzen (1999), A Flame In Your Heart (with Andrew Greig), and The Autonomous Region (with photographer Sean Mayne Smith). In 2001 she was given a Creative Scotland Award. Other prizes include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and in 2005 the Scottish Book of the Year Award. She also writes for radio, and in 2005 she published, to great critical acclaim, a collection of non-fiction writings, Findings.
She has held several writer-in-residence posts, including one at the University of Dundee from 1991 to 1993. She has contributed to and co-edited a number of anthologies, and was a part-time Reader in Creative Writing in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews.[1] She was a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Fife.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[2] She is currently the University of Stirling's first appointed Professor of Creative Writing.
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[edit] Awards
- 1981 Eric Gregory Award
- 1982 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Black Spiders
- 1988 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for The Way We Live
- 1995 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist) for The Queen of Sheba
- 1995 Somerset Maugham Award for The Queen of Sheba
- 1995 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) for The Queen of Sheba
- 1996 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) for (The Graduates)
- 1996 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Queen of Sheba
- 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) for Jizzen
- 2000 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) for Jizzen
- 2000 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Jizzen
- 2001 Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award
- 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) (shortlist) for Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994
- 2004 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) for The Tree House
- 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) for The Tree House
- 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award for The Tree House
- 2006 Ondaatje Prize (shortlist) for Findings
- 2006 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award (shortlist) for Findings
[edit] Bibliography
- Black Spiders 1982
- A Flame In Your Heart (with Andrew Greig) 1986
- The Way We Live 1987
- The Golden Peak: Travels in North Pakistan 1992 (reissued as Among Muslims in 2002)
- The Autonomous Region: Poems and Photographs from Tibet 1993
- The Queen of Sheba 1994
- Jizzen 1999
- Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead (Poems 1980-94) 2002 (shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
- The Treehouse 2004 (winner of the Forward Poetry Prize) and Scottish Book of the Year Award.
- Findings 2005
[edit] References
- ^ School of English, St Andrews
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
[edit] External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography
- Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
- Anatomy of a natural poet by Sarah Jones in Scotsman.com
- Poetry Archive profile, including audio clips
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