Ron Butlin
Illustration — Ron Butlin Ron Butlin (born 1949 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish poet and novelist who was Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2008 to 2014.
Ron Butlin
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- 1949 · Edinburgh.
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- United Kingdom
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- librettist · novelist · poet · journalist · writer
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Ron Butlin Ron Butlin (born 1949 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish poet and novelist who was Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2008 to 2014.
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Butlin was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He later became writer in residence in 1982 and 1984 at the university.
Career
Career
Butlin has written several novels, collections of short stories, poems and plays. His work has been widely anthologised in Britain and abroad, and translated into over a dozen languages. His debut novel, The Sound of My Voice, was republished in 2002 with an introduction by Irvine Welsh who called it "one of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the Eighties". He has written seven libretti for opera, mostly for Scottish Opera, and frequently in collaboration with composer Lyell Cresswell. Ron Butlin's literary archive is held at the National Library of Scotland.
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Butlin is married to the Scottish-Swiss novelist and short story writer Regi Claire.
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Ron Butlin is recorded with the occupation science fiction writer. Recorded with the occupation librettist. Recorded with the occupation journalist. Recorded with the occupation novelist. Recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as librettist, novelist, poet, journalist and writer.
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1949
Ron Butlin was born on 1 January 1949.
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