John A. Scott

John Alan Scott (who has published under the names John A. Scott and John Scott) (born 23 April 1948) is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic.

Scott was born in Littlehampton in Sussex, England, migrating to Australia during his childhood. [ [http://www.austlit.com/a/scott-ja/index.html John A Scott Contents page] at Australian Literature Resources] Over several books of poetry his work developed in an 'experimental' direction unusual in Australian poetry, owing partly to his interest in translation. Indeed he has translated a volume, "Elegies", of the contemporary French poet Emmanuel Hocquard. However since the 1990s he has concentrated on producing novels. This change was occasioned in part by an Australia Council studio fellowship in Paris which he shared with the Australian novelist Mark Henshaw. [“Interview”] His work has won him the Victorian Premier's Award twice, in 1986 and again in 1994. The collection of novellas "What I Have Written" has been filmed from his own screenplay and he has been translated into French, German and Slovenian. He has taught in the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong University but now writes full-time.

Awards

* 1984: Newcastle Poetry Prize for "St. Clair"
* 1986: C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for "St. Clair"
* 1994: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for "What I Have Written"

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

Novels
*"Blair" (McPhee Gribble, 1988) ISBN 0-14-011093-3
*"What I Have Written" (Penguin, 1994) ISBN 0-14-026199-0
*"Before I Wake" (Penguin, 1996) ISBN 0-14-025695-4
*"The Architect" (Penguin, 2001) ISBN 0-670-91044-9
*"Warra Warra" (Text, 2003) ISBN 1-877008-55-9

External links

* [http://www.austlit.com/a/scott-ja/index.html Author page] - Australian Literary Resources
* [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=266 Elegy VI] by Emmanuel Hocquard, Translation by John A. Scott from French
* [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=268 Elegy VII] by Emmanuel Hocquard, Translation
* [http://dymocksbuilding.com.au/contentstatic/literarymatter/interviews/johnscott.asp Interview with John Scott]
* [https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/1216/1/45.pdf Bestsellerdoom] Review of "Warra Warra" by Don Anderson

References

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