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The basics
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Scottish writer
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Male
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(Edinburgh)
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Spouse(s):
Regi Claire
The details
Biography
Introduction
Ron Butlin (born 1949) is a Scottish poet and novelist who was Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2008-14.
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."
Opera Libretto
He has written seven libretti for opera, mostly for Scottish Opera, and frequently in collaboration with composer Lyell Cresswell.