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Books
  
The Sound of My Voice, The Magicians of Edinbu, Ghost Moon, Here Come the Trolls!, Night visits

An interview with ron butlin


Ron Butlin (born 1949) is a Scottish poet and novelist who was Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2008-14.

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He has written several novels, collections of short stories, poems and plays. His work has been widely anthologised in Britain and abroad, and translated into over a dozen languages. His novel, The Sound Of My Voice, was republished in 2002 with an introduction by Irvine Welsh who called it "one of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the Eighties."

Ron Butlin is married to the Scottish-Swiss novelist and short story writer Regi Claire.

Ron butlin


Opera Libretto

He has written seven libretti for opera, mostly for Scottish Opera, and frequently in collaboration with composer Lyell Cresswell.

References

Ron Butlin Wikipedia