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Don Paterson (Donald Paterson) was born on 1963 in Dundee, Scotland, is a Scottish poet, writer and musician (born 1963). Discover Don Paterson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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1875

The Eyes, adaptations of the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875–1939), was published in 1999.

1963

Donald Paterson (born 1963 in Dundee) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.

His work has won several awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

1990

Paterson won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem "A Private Bottling" won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993.

1993

His first collection of poetry, Nil Nil (1993), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.

1994

He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the Poetry Society's 1994 "New Generation Poets" promotion.

1997

God's Gift to Women (1997) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

1999

He is the editor of 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney (1999) and of Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century (1999) with Jo Shapcott.

2002

In 2002, he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award.

2003

Paterson's collection of poems Landing Light (2003) won both the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.

2004

He has also published three collections of aphorisms, The Book of Shadows (2004), The Blind Eye (2007) and Best Thought, Worst Thought (2008).

2006

Orpheus, his version of Rilke's Die Sonette an Orpheus, was published in 2006.

Paterson teaches in the school of English at the University of St Andrews and was the poetry editor for London publishers Picador for more than 25 years.

An accomplished jazz guitarist, he works solo and for ten years ran the jazz-folk ensemble Lammas with Tim Garland.

2008

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

2009

He was recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009.

He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009.

2012

In 2012, Paterson wrote an open letter in The Herald criticising Scotland's arts funding council Creative Scotland.

In 2012–2013, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford.

Paterson's memoir Toy Fights: A Boyhood was published by Faber in January 2023.

2015

In 2015, Paterson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.