{"id":878,"date":"2024-11-25T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/douglas-dunn\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:52:40","slug":"douglas-dunn","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/douglas-dunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942. He is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic, and the author of over ten collections of poetry published by Faber &amp; Faber. His widely praised <em>Elegies<\/em> (1985), a moving account of his first wife\u2019s death, became a critical and popular success and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (now the Costa Prize). Other collections include: <em>Dante&#8217;s Drum Kit<\/em> (1993);\u00a0<em>The Year&#8217;s Afternoon<\/em> (2000); and <em>The Noise of a Fly <\/em>(2017), which were all shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His <em>New Selected Poems 1964-2000<\/em> was published in 2003. He has also edited several anthologies, including <em>The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry<\/em> (2000). He was Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews from 1991 and was awarded the Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013.<\/p>\n<div class=\"citizen-ex__pane\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942. He is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic, and the author of over ten collections of poetry published by Faber &amp; Faber. His widely praised Elegies (1985), a moving account of his first wife\u2019s death, became a critical and popular success and won the Whitbread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":879,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-878","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}