John Burnside
John Burnside | |
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Burnside in 2012 | |
| Born | 19 March 1955 Dunfermline, Scotland |
| Died | 29 May 2024 (aged 69) |
| Education | Cambridge College of Arts and Technology |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable work | The Hoop Common Knowledge A Lie About My Father Black Cat Bone |
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John Burnside FRSL FRSE (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book – in this case, for Black Cat Bone in 2011. In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize in recognition of his full body of work.