Prof Douglas Dunn, OBE, FRSL

Career: writer; head Sch of English Univ of St Andrews 1995-99 (prof 1991-), St Andrews Scottish Studies Inst 1993- (fell in creative writing 1989-91); Somerset Maugham Award 1972, Geoffrey Faber Meml Prize 1975, Hawthornden Prize 1982, Whitbread Book of the Year Award for 1985 (1986), Cholmondeley Award 1989; Hon LLD Univ of Dundee 1987, Hon DLitt Univ of Hull 1995, Hon DLitt Univ of St Andrews 2009; hon prof Univ of Dundee 1987, hon fell Humberside Coll; FRSL 1981, FRSE 2009

Books and Publications: books of poetry incl: Terry Street (1969), The Happier Life (1972), Love or Nothing (1974), Barbarians (1979), St Kilda's Parliament (1982), Elegies (1985), Selected Poems (1986), Northlight (1988), Dante's Drum-kit (1993), The Donkey's Ears (2000), The Year's Afternoon (2000), Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003), A Line in the Water (with Norman Ackroyd, 2009); other books: Secret Villages (short stories, 1985), Andromache (translation, 1990), Poll Tax: The Fiscal Fake (1990), The Essential Browning (ed, 1990), Scotland: An Anthology (ed, 1991), Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (ed, 1992), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (short stories, 1995), Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (ed, 1995), 20th Century Scottish Poems (ed, 2000)