2011 Costa Book Awards (Novel), shortlist, A Summer of Drowning.

2011 Corine Literature Prize for A Lie About My Father.2011 PEN/Ackerley prize (shortlist) for Waking Up in Toytown.

2006 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award for A Lie About My Father.2005 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection - shortlist), for The Good Neighbour.Eliot Prize (shortlist), for The Light Trap 2002 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award (shortlist), for The Light Trap.2000 Whitbread Book Award, Poetry Award, for The Asylum Dance.Eliot Prize (shortlist), for The Asylum Dance 2000 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection – shortlist), for The Asylum Dance.1994 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, for Feast Days.1991 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, for Common Knowledge.1988 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, for The Hoop.In March 2016 Burnside was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters. His collection of short stories, Something Like Happy, was published in 2013. In 2011 he received the Petrarca-Preis, a major German international literary prize.īurnside's work is inspired by his engagement with nature, environment and deep ecology. He also writes an occasional nature column for New Statesman. His short stories and feature essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Guardian and The London Review of Books, among others. His multi-award winning memoir, A Lie About My Father, was published in 2006 and its successor, Waking Up In Toytown, in 2010. Eliot Prize.īurnside is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and several novels, including The Dumb House (1997), The Devil's Footprints, (2007), Glister, (2009) and A Summer of Drowning, (2011). His 2011 collection, Black Cat Bone, was awarded The Forward Prize and the T.S. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University., where he teaches creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. Burnside studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.

Waking Up in Toytown by John Burnside