Occupation Novelist Nationality Scottish | Name Chris Dolan Role Novelist | |
Books Redlegs, An Anarchist's Story: Th, Social Torture: The Case, Poor Angels and Other Sto, John Lennon | ||
Vagabond voices author chris dolan talks about his new novel aliyyah
Chris Dolan (born 1957) is an award-winning Scottish novelist, poet and playwright writes. He has written regularly for stage, page, screen, and radio.
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- Vagabond voices author chris dolan talks about his new novel aliyyah
- Vagabond voices potter s field by chris dolan
- Early life
- Career
- Novels
- Short Stories
- Non fiction titles
- Plays
- Writing for screen and radio
- Awards
- Prizes
- References
Vagabond voices potter s field by chris dolan
Early life
Born in Glasgow, after being Scottish Co-ordinator of Community Service Volunteers and International Consultant for UNESCO, Dolan devoted himself to writing full-time in 1992.
Career
Dolan has published four novels (Ascension Day, Redlegs, Potter's Field and Aliyyah), two collections of short stories and two non-fiction books. He has had three full-length stage plays produced internationally, with five shorter pieces and four collaborations with Spanish dramatists. He has written over 50 hours of television, and more of radio drama. He has worked in collaboration with visual artists on several pieces of public art, has published poems, broadcasts regularly and writes for Scottish and London newspapers.
Novels
Short Stories
Dolan's short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio.
Poor Angels (Polygon, 1995) was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize, and included both the winning story for 1995 Scotland on Sunday / Macallan Prize (Sleet and Snow), and runner-up the following year (Year of the Vezzas).
"He holds you in a tight grip right from the start and manages to combine a sense of raw nostalgia with a profoundly moving atmosphere of love and loss." - Scotland on Sunday on Sleet and Snow.Non-fiction titles
An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald (Birlinn 2009)
Plays
His first play, The Veil, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1991. His other plays include Sabina (1998), a bittersweet comedy set in Glasgow, which won an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First in 1996, and which he adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2000. Sabina has had nine productions to date. The Reader, an adaptation of the novel by Bernhard Schlink, was first staged in 2000 by Borderline Theatre Company, second and third productions were staged in Edinburgh, LA and San Francisco.
His next play The Angel's Share (2000) toured Scotland and was most recently staged in Carlisle. He also translates and adapts drama from Spanish, including Short Spin and Wheesht, and translates his own work into Spanish.
Writing for screen and radio
He writes regularly for radio, including four original plays and many adaptations, including Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson and several of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels. His four-part modern take on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was broadcast in October 2012.
He writes and presents radio features and documentaries for BBC Radio Scotland and for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. He has written such screenplays as Poor Angels and Ring of Truth as well as TV drama documentaries, An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald, Barbado'ed both broadcast by BBC and Red Oil for Channel 4. He also has written extensively for Taggart, Take the High Road, Machair (TV series), and River City for which he has been writing since its inception.