Douglas Dunn

Douglas Dunn was a Scottish poet and critic born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942. His debut collection Terry Street won a Somerset Maugham Award, and Elegies, written after the death of his first wife, won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985. He was Professor of English at the University of St Andrews and director of its Scottish Studies Institute, and was appointed OBE in 2003. The Telegraph reported his death at the age of 83.