Regi Claire

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Regi Claire (born Muenchwilen, Thurgau Canton, Switzerland), is a novelist, short story writer and poet living and working in Scotland. Her native language is Swiss-German, but she writes in English, her fourth language. [1]

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Regi Claire
Born
Muenchwilen, Thurgau Canton, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss / British
Occupationnovelist, short story writer, poet

Life

Regi Claire studied English and German at the University of Zurich and University of Aberdeen, the latter on an exchange scholarship, then became a PhD student/research assistant at University of Zurich.

She is the author of four published books: two novels and two collections of short stories. Her first collection, Inside ~ Outside, published in 1998 by Scottish Cultural Press, and the second, Fighting It, published by Two Ravens Press in 2009, were both shortlisted for Saltire Scottish Book of the Year awards. Fighting It was also longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Her first novel, The Beauty Room, published in 2002 by Polygon/EUP (since 2013 also available as an e-book from Birlinn), was longlisted for MIND Book of the Year. [2] Her second novel, The Waiting, published in 2012 by Word Power Books, won a UBS Cultural Foundation award.

Her first poem, '(Un)certainties', won 1st prize in the Mslexia/Poetry Book Society Women's Poetry Competition 2019 and is currently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2020.

Her first published short story won 1st prize in the Edinburgh Review 10th Anniversary Short Story Competition in 1995. A later story was the Guardian newspaper's Radio Pick of the Day and another, 'The Tasting', was selected for Best British Short Stories 2013. She is a Cadenza magazine prizewinner, was shortlisted for Eyelands 9th International Short Story Contest 2019 (Greece) and has received bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council) and Thurgau Lottery Fund.

She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, from 2012-2015, and a Royal Literary Fund Lector for Reading Round Scotland from 2015-2017. A former creative writing tutor at the National Gallery of Scotland, [1] she currently teaches creative writing at Edinburgh City Art Centre and is a teaching fellow in critical reading at the Centre for Open Learning at Edinburgh University.

She has collaborated with her husband, Ron Butlin, on poetry translations for the Scottish Poetry Library and the Goethe Institut. Publications include: The Night Begins with a Question: XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002 (Carcanet, 2007); Fife Lines: Poetry from Switzerland (2002); orte: Brücke nach Edinburgh (Switzerland, 1996).

She is a member of Society of Authors, Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz, Scottish PEN (where she served on the Executive Committee and the Writers at Risk Committee for several years), Dove Tales, Poetry Association of Scotland (honorary) and Swiss Club Edinburgh (honorary).

Family

She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, the writer Ron Butlin. [3]

Works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Regi Claire". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Author details:Regi Claire". Scottish Book Trust www.scottishbooktrust.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Regi Claire interview: The fight of her life". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Book review: The Waiting, Regi Claire". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Jacqueline. "Book Review: The Waiting by Regi Claire". The Bottle Imp. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "The waiting by Regi Claire – Glasgow Women's Library". womenslibrary.org.uk. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
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