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Christopher WhyteChristopher Whyte is a poet and novelist. His first collection of Gaelic poems Uirsgeul / Myth (Gairm, 1991) was joint winner of a Saltire Award in 1992. His novels include The Warlock of Strathearn (Trafalgar, 1997) and The Cloud Machinery (Orion, 2000), both recipients of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. His Gaelic poems have been published in Italian, German, French, Catalan, Croatian, Albanian, Hungarian and English translation. He is currently Reader in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. Recent articlesHungarian Originals: three poems openDemocracy presents poetry from “At the end of the broken bridge: XXV Hungarian Poems”, a special anthology published by Carcanet and the Scottish Poetry Library featuring poems in the original Hungarian and in new translations from leading Scottish poets. |
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