John Burnside was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book – in this case, for Black Cat Bone in 2011. In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize in recognition of his full body of work.
- Occupation
- poet, university teacher, writer
- Position held
- Booker Prize judge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- March 19, 1955
- Died
- May 29, 2024
