Robert Alan Jamieson

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Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958) is a poet and novelist from Shetland, Scotland. He grew up in the crofting community of Sandness.^[1] He works as a creative writing tutor at Edinburgh University,^[2] having been co-editor of the Edinburgh Review in 1993–1998 and a creative writing fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in 1998–2001.^[3][4]

Novels[]

• Soor Hearts (1984)
• Thin Wealth (1986)
• A Day at the Office (1991), named by Edinburgh-based List Magazine among the 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time: "Each page of this book – a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction – looks more like a work of art than a novel."^[5]
• Da Happie Laand (2010)
• MacCloud Falls (2017)

Poetry[]

Jamieson writes in the Shetland dialect of Scots. 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)^[6]

References[]