John A. Scott
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John Alan Scott (who has published under the names John A. Scott and John Scott) (born 23 April 1948) is an Australian poet, novelist and academic.
Scott was born in Littlehampton in Sussex, England, migrating to Australia during his childhood.[1] Over several books of poetry his work developed in an 'experimental' direction unusual in Australian poetry, owing partly to his interest in translation. Indeed he has translated a volume, Elegies, of the contemporary French poet Emmanuel Hocquard. However since the 1990s he has concentrated on producing novels. This change was occasioned in part by an Australia Council studio fellowship in Paris which he shared with the Australian novelist Mark Henshaw[2]. His work has won him the Victorian Premier's Award twice, in 1986 and again in 1994. The collection of novellas What I Have Written has been filmed from his own screenplay and he has been translated into French, German and Slovenian. He has taught in the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong University but now writes full-time.
[edit] Bibliography
Poetry
- The Barbarous Sideshow (1975)
- From the Flooded City (1981)
- Smoking (1983)
- The Quarrel with Ourselves & Confession (Rigmarole, 1984) ISBN 0909229279
- St. Clair: Three Narratives (UQP, 1986) ISBN 0-7022-1907-X
- Singles: Shorter Poems, 1982-1986 (1989)
- Translation (Picador, 1990) ISBN 0-330-27196-2
- Selected Poems (UQP, 1995) ISBN 0702226882
Novels
- Blair (McPhee Gribble, 1988) ISBN 0140110933
- What I Have Written (Penguin, 1994) ISBN 0140261990
- Before I Wake (Penguin, 1996) ISBN 0140256954
- The Architect (Penguin, 2001) ISBN 0670910449
- Warra Warra (Text, 2003) ISBN 1877008559
[edit] External links
- Author page at Australian Literary Resources
- Elegy VI by Emmanuel Hocquard, translated by Scott from French)
- Elegy VII by Emmanuel Hocquard, trans. as above
- Interview
- Bestsellerdoom review of Warra Warra by Don Anderson
[edit] References
- ^ John A Scott Contents page at Australian Literature Resources
- ^ “Interview”
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| NAME | Scott, John A. |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Australain poet and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Littlehampton, Sussex, United Kingdom |
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