Ian Patterson | |
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Born | 31 August 1948 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Poet, translator, academic |
Spouses |
Ian Kenneth Patterson (born 31 August 1948) is a British poet, translator and academic. He is a Life Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, having retired in 2018 from his post as Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Director of Studies in English and Fellow Librarian. [1]
Ian Patterson was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in English in 1969. He returned to academia in the 1990s to write a PhD, and in 1995 was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. In 1999 he moved to Queens', where he was to teach English as a fellow of the college for the next 20 years. [2]
In 2017 Ian Patterson won the Forward Prize for best single poem for "The Plenty of Nothing", an elegy to his wife, Jenny Diski. [3]
Patterson has written a non-fiction book about the bombing of Guernica and the Spanish Civil War. [4] He is also a translator: works include the final volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust [5] and works by Charles Fourier and Alain Touraine. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, writing on subjects as diverse as Jilly Cooper, [6] libraries and Ann Quin. [7]
Patterson was married to the writer Jenny Diski until her death in 2016. He appears as The Poet in her writing. [8] In 2017, he married the writer Olivia Laing. [9] He is the editor of Nemo's Almanac, according to The Guardian "the world's hardest book quiz". Previous editors include Alan Hollinghurst. [10]
Ian Patterson | |
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Born | 31 August 1948 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Poet, translator, academic |
Spouses |
Ian Kenneth Patterson (born 31 August 1948) is a British poet, translator and academic. He is a Life Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, having retired in 2018 from his post as Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Director of Studies in English and Fellow Librarian. [1]
Ian Patterson was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in English in 1969. He returned to academia in the 1990s to write a PhD, and in 1995 was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. In 1999 he moved to Queens', where he was to teach English as a fellow of the college for the next 20 years. [2]
In 2017 Ian Patterson won the Forward Prize for best single poem for "The Plenty of Nothing", an elegy to his wife, Jenny Diski. [3]
Patterson has written a non-fiction book about the bombing of Guernica and the Spanish Civil War. [4] He is also a translator: works include the final volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust [5] and works by Charles Fourier and Alain Touraine. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, writing on subjects as diverse as Jilly Cooper, [6] libraries and Ann Quin. [7]
Patterson was married to the writer Jenny Diski until her death in 2016. He appears as The Poet in her writing. [8] In 2017, he married the writer Olivia Laing. [9] He is the editor of Nemo's Almanac, according to The Guardian "the world's hardest book quiz". Previous editors include Alan Hollinghurst. [10]