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Name
  
Robert Jamieson

Role
  
Poet


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Books
  
Thin Wealth, A Day at the Office, Da Happie Laand, Nort Atlantik Drift, Shoormal: A Sequence of Movements, Soor hearts

Education
  
University of Edinburgh

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Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958) is a Scottish, Shetlandic poet and novelist who grew up on the crofting community of Sandness. He currently works as a creative writing tutor at Edinburgh University. He was co-editor of the Edinburgh Review from 1993 to 1998, and a creative writing fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in 1998–2001.

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Writing the North - Robert Alan Jamieson


Novels

  • Soor Hearts (1984)
  • Thin Wealth (1986)
  • A Day at the Office (1991), which was named by the Edinburgh-based List Magazine as one of the 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time, commenting that "each page of this book – a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction – looks more like a work of art than a novel."
  • Da Happie Laand (2010)

    • Poetry

    Jamieson writes in the Scots dialect of Shetlandic. Some of his works are:

  • Shoormal (1986)
  • Nort Atlantik Drift (1999), reprinted in a bilingual edition in 2007. Includes "Laamint fir da tristie".
  • Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question (2005)

    • Anthologies

  • (Contributor) Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology (Edinburgh, 2010)

    • References

    Robert Alan Jamieson Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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