Angus Peter Campbell
Home address:
Reul-na-maidne, An Caol, IV40 8BU, ScotlandTelephone:
01599 53 4170Mobile:
0778 065 1915Email:
apclar@gmail.comWebsite:
www.anguspetercampbell.co.ukBRAW network:
noLL funded:
yesBiography:
Angus Peter Campbell is an award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor. Born in South Uist he now lives in the Isle of Skye, with his wife and six children. He is an Honours graduate in Politics and History from the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the Bardic Crown in 2001, the same year he was given a Creative Scotland Award. His Gaelic novel An Oidhche mus do Sheòl Sinn (2004) was short-listed for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, and was also publicly voted in 2006 by readers of the List Magazine into the Top Ten of the Best-Ever Books Written in Scotland. He was given a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2007 for Best Actor Nomination for the lead role in the Gaelic film Seachd.
About writer's work:
He writes of celebrating survival in a diminishing world. Sorley MacLean said of him "I have no doubts that Angus Peter Campbell is one of the few really significant living poets in Scotland, writing in any language." (WHFP 1992) His latest poetry collection Meas air Chrannaibh/ 'Fruit on Bra(i)nches' (2007), a trilingual collection in Gaelic, Scots and English has been reviewed by Meg Bateman as "a wonderful collection, simultaneously humorous and profound" Susan Mansfield of The Scotsman described the reading of his poem 'Ceàrd na Bàrdachd Gàidhlig' ('The Gaelic Poetry Tinker') at the StANZA Poetry Festival in as "the most insightful, passionate, humorous manifesto for the role of poetry that I've heard in a long time."
About writer's events and projects:
Available for readings in both Gaelic and English, and along with the translator Derrick McClure, in Scots. Some school work considered.
Language:
Gaelic, Scots, EnglishBooks written
Archie has lived on a small island off the Scottish coast his entire life. After decades without a job and without a break from his selfish wife, Archie packs his bag and leaves to find the hole ...
