Iain Galbraith

Iain
Galbraith

Iain Galbraith, born in Glasgow in 1956, grew up in the west of Scotland and studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including New Writing Scotland, Poetry ReviewThe Times Literary Supplement, PN ReviewEdinburgh ReviewNew WritingBest Scottish Poems and, in German translation, in the German and Austrian journals Akzente and Manuskripte.
His German versions of British and Irish plays have been performed at more than a hundred theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is a winner of the John Dryden Translation Prize, awarded jointly by the British Centre for Literary Translation and British Comparative Literature Association.
Iain Galbraith, born in Glasgow in 1956, grew up in the west of Scotland and studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including New Writing Scotland, Poetry ReviewThe Times Literary Supplement, PN ReviewEdinburgh ReviewNew WritingBest Scottish Poems and, in German translation, in the German and Austrian journals Akzente and Manuskripte.
His German versions of British and Irish plays have been performed at more than a hundred theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is a winner of the John Dryden Translation Prize, awarded jointly by the British Centre for Literary Translation and British Comparative Literature Association.
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