2017.05.14 作家和诗人利兹-洛赫德

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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer and poet Liz Lochhead.

She was the Makar, the Scottish national poet, between 2011 and 2016.

Liz was born in Motherwell, not far from Glasgow, in 1947. She was always drawing at school and so decided to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where she didn't enjoy the drawing, but did start writing.

After winning a poetry competition, she started performing her poems at readings in Scotland. She published her first pamphlet of poetry, Memo for Spring, in 1972, after a publisher heard her at a reading.

After her second volume of poetry was published in 1978 and she won the first Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange Fellowship which took her to Toronto for a year, she was able to give up her job as an art teacher and start writing full time.

From the early 1980s, she started writing plays as well as poetry, and has also adapted classic Greek and French plays for the stage.

She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015.



作家和诗人利兹-洛赫德。

她在2011年至2016年期间是苏格兰国家诗人Makar。

Liz于1947年出生在离格拉斯哥不远的马瑟韦尔。她在学校一直在画画，所以决定在格拉斯哥艺术学院学习，在那里她并不喜欢画画，但确实开始写作。

在赢得一次诗歌比赛后，她开始在苏格兰的阅读会上表演她的诗歌。1972年，一位出版商在一次朗诵会上听到她的诗后，她出版了她的第一本诗歌小册子《春天的备忘录》。

1978年，她的第二本诗集出版，她赢得了第一个苏格兰/加拿大作家交流奖学金，这使她在多伦多呆了一年，之后她就可以放弃艺术教师的工作，开始全职写作。

从80年代初开始，她开始写剧本以及诗歌，还将希腊和法国的经典戏剧改编成舞台剧。

她在2015年被授予女王诗歌金奖。