World Literary Awards

← Back to Home

Don Paterson

ドン・パターソン

Don Paterson

Aliases: Donald Paterson

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1963-01-01 （Dundee, Scotland）
Nationality
Scottish
Languages
English
Residence History
Dundee, Scotland → St Andrews, Scotland

Career

Occupations
poet, writer, musician, jazz guitarist, university professor
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
University of St Andrews, Picador
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
Nominations
Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist (40 Sonnets, 2016)

Awards

Eric Gregory Award
1990
Organization: Society of Authors
Result: 受賞
Forward Poetry Prize
1993
Work: Nil Nil
Category: 最優秀処女作
Result: 受賞
T. S. Eliot Prize
1997
Work: God's Gift to Women
Result: 受賞
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
1997
Work: God's Gift to Women
Result: 受賞
Whitbread Poetry Award
2003
Work: Landing Light
Result: 受賞
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
2009
Organization: Royal Family
Result: 受賞
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
2008
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Nil Nil

1993 poetry

Debut poetry collection. Won Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.

lifeloss

God's Gift to Women

1997 poetry

Award-winning collection with T. S. Eliot Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

lovehumour

Landing Light

2003 poetry

Won T. S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award.

lightlanding

Rain

2009 poetry

Winner of Forward Poetry Prize.

rainmeditation

Bibliography

  • Nil Nil (1993)
  • God's Gift to Women (1997)
  • The Eyes (1999)
  • Landing Light (2003)
  • Orpheus (2006)
  • Rain (2009)
  • 40 Sonnets (2015)
  • Zonal (2020)
  • The Arctic (2022)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
precise languagephilosophicalsonnet form
Recurring Motifs
shadowslightlosstime

Legacy

Leading contemporary Scottish poet with multiple major poetry awards and academic career.

Trivia

  • Accomplished jazz guitarist.
  • Poetry editor at Picador for over 25 years.
  • Published memoir 'Toy Fights: A Boyhood' in 2023.