Biography

Award-winning poet, author and playwright Chris Dolan was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

About writer's work

His first play, The Veil, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1991. His other plays include Sabina! (1998), which won an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First in 1996, and which he adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2000. The Reader, an adaptation of the novel by Bernard Schlink, was first staged in 2000 by Borderline Theatre and will be produced in the US in 2006. He also translates and adapts drama from Spanish, including Short Spin and Wheesht, and translates his own work into Spanish. He writes regularly for radio, including two original plays and several adaptations. He writes and presents radio features and documentaries for Radio Scotland and for BBC Radio 3 and 4. He writes screenplays which have included Poor Angels and a TV drama documentary, An Anarchist's Story, was broadcast by the BBC in 2006. His writing for television includes episodes of Taggart and River City. His first novel, Ascension Day, was published in 1998, and won the McKitterick Prize. His book Poor Angels and Other Stories (1995) was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.

Other work

His journalism includes features, reviews and travel pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including The Independent and Scotland on Sunday, and he has been Literary Reviewer and Features Writer for The Herald since 2002. In 1999, he won the Canongate Prize for Journalism. His short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio and Radio Scotland. He is a former winner of the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition.