Ron Butlin

Ron Butlin was born in Edinburgh. His poetry and fiction have won several Scottish Arts Council Book Awards and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and been translated into over ten languages. The French translation of his novel The Sound of My Voice was awarded Le Prix Mille Pages 2004 for Best Foreign Novel and Le Prix Lucioles 2005 for Best Foreign Novel.

 A 'regular' at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, he has participated in many major literary festivals in Britain and abroad. Through the auspices of the British Council and others, he has lectured and given readings in Central and Eastern Europe, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, the former Soviet Union, Canada, Australia, the Middle East, Nigeria and Mauritius.

 He was chosen by the British Council to be Scotland's writer-representative at the prestigious Oradea 2000 conference in Romania.

  He has lectured at all the major Scottish universities and has been 'Writer in Residence' at the universities of Edinburgh, Stirling, St Andrews, and New Brunswick. In 2004 he was Poet-in-Residence at the National Galleries of Scotland.

 As a writer, he has been commissioned to work with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony and the Edinburgh String Quartet, among other ensembles. Most recent commission is an opera libretto Good Angel, Bad Angel, to be performed in May 2005.

 A freelance journalist for the Sunday Herald, he lives in Edinburgh with his wife, the writer Regi Claire, and their dog.

 In 2005 his forthcoming publications will include: No More Angels (short stories), Without a Backward Glance: New and Selected Poems. He has recently completed his third novel, Belonging. Publication details are currently under discussion.

"The Sound of My Voice" is the sound of a writer at the peak of his power, and one of the most inventive and daring novels ever to have come out of Scotland. Ron Butlin is that rarest of breeds - a poet who takes the novel form and shows that it is ripe for reinvention. Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality'' -  Ian Rankin

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