John A. Scott

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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.

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John Alan Scott
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Scott at the Adelaide Fringe in 2000
Born
John Alan Scott

(1948-04-23) 23 April 1948 (age 75)
Education Monash University
Occupations
  • Poet
  • novelist
  • academic
Years active1970–present

Biography

Scott was born in Littlehampton [1] in Sussex, England, migrating to Australia during his childhood and residing mainly in Melbourne since 1959. [2] He attended Monash University, where he was a contemporary of fellow poets Alan Wearne and Laurie Duggan. [3]

A former freelance scriptwriter for radio and television, working on such shows as The Aunty Jack Show (1974), It's Magic (1974) and The Garry McDonald Show (1977).

He first became known in the literary world as a poet. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, his work developed in an 'experimental' direction unusual in Australian poetry, owing partly to his interest in translation. In 1985 he was one of Four Australian Poets group that toured the US and Canada reading poetry. [2] He also edited and translated Emmanuel Hocquard  : Elegies and Other Works (1989). [1]

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. [4] His work has won him the Victorian Premier's Award twice, in 1986 and again in 1994. The novel, 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

Bibliography

Poetry

Novels

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References

  1. 1 2 Guide to the Papers of John A. Scott
  2. 1 2 "John Scott". 8 September 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "John Scott". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  4. Wyndham, Susan (5 September 2014). "26 years after his acclaimed first novel Mark Henshaw explains the hiatus in his writing life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 November 2018.