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Robin Robertson

ROBIN ROBERTSON was brought up on the northeast coast of Scotland and now lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published five collections of poetry and has received a number of honors, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes. His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, was published in 2014. The Long Take won the 2018 Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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