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 English-
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| Born | John Alan Scott 23 April 1948 Littlehampton, West Sussex, England |
| Education | Monash University |
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| Years active | 1970–present |
Biography
Scott was born in Littlehampton[1] in Sussex, England, migrating to Australia during his childhood and residing mainly in Melbourne since 1959.[2] He attended Monash University, where he was a contemporary of fellow poets Alan Wearne and Laurie Duggan.[3]
A former freelance scriptwriter for radio and television, working on such shows as The Aunty Jack Show (1974), It's Magic (1974) and The Garry McDonald Show (1977).
He first became known in the literary world as a poet. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, his work developed in an 'experimental' direction unusual in Australian poetry, owing partly to his interest in translation. In 1985 he was one of Four Australian Poets group that toured the US and Canada reading poetry.[2] He also edited and translated Emmanuel Hocquard : Elegies and Other Works (1989).[1]
Since the 1990s he has concentrated on producing novels. This change was occasioned in part by an
He has taught in the Faculty of Creative Arts at
Awards
- 1984: Newcastle Poetry Prize for St. Clair[3]
- 1986: C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for St. Clair[3]
- 1994: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for What I Have Written[3]
- 2013: Peter Porter Poetry Prize for "Four Sonnets"[3]
Bibliography
Poetry
- The Barbarous Sideshow (1975)
- From the Flooded City (1981)
- Smoking (1983)
- The Quarrel with Ourselves & Confession (Rigmarole, 1984) ISBN 0-909229-27-9
- 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 0-7022-2688-2
- Shorter Lives (Puncher & Wattman, 2020) ISBN 9781925780482
Novels
- Blair (McPhee Gribble, 1988) ISBN 0-14-011093-3
- What I Have Written (Penguin, 1994) ISBN 0-14-026199-0
- ISBN 0-14-025695-4
- ISBN 0-670-91044-9
- Warra Warra (Text, 2003) ISBN 1-877008-55-9
- N (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2014) ISBN 978-1-921556-20-3
External links
- Author page - Australian Literary Resources
- Elegy VI by Emmanuel Hocquard, Translation by John A. Scott from French
- Elegy VII by Emmanuel Hocquard, Translation
- Interview with John Scott
- Bestsellerdoom Review of Warra Warra by Don Anderson
References
- ^ a b Guide to the Papers of John A. Scott
- ^ a b "John Scott". 8 September 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "John Scott". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Wyndham, Susan (5 September 2014). "26 years after his acclaimed first novel Mark Henshaw explains the hiatus in his writing life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
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