Robert Alan Jamieson

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Robert Alan Jamieson was born at Lerwick in Shetland on the 28th of January 1958. He grew up in the isolated crofting community of Sandness on the west of mainland. After working in a variety of jobs in his twenties, Jamieson studied literature at the University of Edinburgh as a mature student from 1988 till 1992. He held the William Soutar Fellowship in Perth and was co-editor of Edinburgh Review from 1993 till 1998, when he became Creative Writing Fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, a post he held till 2001. Since then he has been a key figure in the development of Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.

First published in local magazines such as The New Shetlander during his teens, Jamieson's most notable works include the early novels 'Soor Hearts' (1984), 'Thin Wealth' (1986) and the later 'A Day at the Office' (1991). His poetry in Shetlandic Scots and English includes 'Shoormal' (1986), 'Nort Atlantik Drift' (1999) and 'Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question' (2005). He has also collaborated with the composer David Ward, writing the libretto for Ward's symphonic cantata 'Beyond the Far Haaf', premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 1992, and with the painter Graeme Todd on the book 'Mount Hiddenabyss' (2000). In 2005, 'A Day at the Office' was included in The List's '100 Best Scottish Books'. His work features in a number of anthologies.

Jamieson's most recent publications are an illustrated edition of 'Nort Atlantik Drift' (2007), a 3,040 line 'ballad-novella' based on an episode in the history of the Cutty Sark (2007) and a volume of new writing from Edinburgh, edited with Dilys Rose (2007).