Background
Don Paterson (born Donald Paterson) was born on October 30, 1963 in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Don Paterson (born Donald Paterson) was born on October 30, 1963 in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Don Paterson worked at Dundee University as writer-in-residence from 1993 to 1995.
Currently, he teaches in the school of English at the University of St Andrews and is poetry editor for the London publishers Picador. An accomplished jazz guitarist since 1982, Paterson works solo and for ten years ran the jazz-folk ensemble, Lammas, with Tim Garland.
Don Paterson won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem "A Private Bottling" won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the Poetry Society's 'New Generation Poets' promotion in 1994. In 2002 he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award.
His collection of poems "Landing Light" (2003), won both the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.
Paterson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Besides, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in the 2010 New Year Honours. In 2015 Paterson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
