Anne Frater
She was born in Stornoway on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She was brought up in the village of Upper Bayble in the district of Point, a small community which has also been home to Derick Thomson and Iain Crichton Smith.
Anne Frater
- Born
- 1967 · Stornoway.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- writer · poet
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Languages
- Scottish Gaelic · English
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Early life
Early life
Frater graduated from the University of Glasgow with a first class honours degree in Celtic and French. She qualified for a teaching qualification from Jordanhill College and in 1995 was awarded a PhD from the University of Glasgow for her thesis on Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750.
Career
Career
She lectures at Lews Castle College in Stornoway, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, where she teaches on Gaelic-medium degree courses, and is Programme Leader for the BAH Gaelic Scotland. Her poems have been included in a variety of anthologies of Scottish Gaelic poetry and has been published in magazines such as Chapman and Verse. Her first anthology of poems, Fo'n t-Slige (Under the Shell), was published in 1995, and her second collection, Cridhe Creige, in 2017. In March 2016, a selection of ten poems, Anns a’ Chànan Chùbhraidh/En la lengua fragante, was premiered by her and translator Miguel Teruel in a public reading at the University of Valencia. The poems were read in Scottish Gaelic by Frater followed by the Spanish version by Teruel.
Style
Style
Her poetry analyses identity and nation as well as love, landscape and language. She mainly writes in free verse.
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1967
Anne Frater born at Stornoway.
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- 1.Frater, Anne (1997). Academic writing includes "The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750" in Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan (eds), A History of Scottish Women's Writing, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-14.
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