Robert Alan Jamieson was born in Shetland in 1958. After publishing
two novels and a collection of poems while in his twenties, he attended
the University of Edinburgh as a mature student. Subsequently he held
the William Soutar Fellowship in Perth, was co-editor of Edinburgh
Review and writer-in-residence at the Universities of Glasgow
and Strathclyde. His third novel A Day
at the Office (1991) was among The List's '100 Best Scottish
Books', while his highly praised poetry in Shetlandic Scots has been
translated into more than a dozen languages. |
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