Robin Robertson

Robin Robertson is from the northeastern coast of Scotland. His sixth book, The Long Take (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018), won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. He has translated two plays by Euripides: Medea and The Bacchae. In 2006, he published The Deleted World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a selection of English translations of poems by Tomas Tranströmer. The collection was rereleased in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

Robertson’s other awards include the Petrarca-Preis, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes for Poetry.