Dilys Rose Explained

Dilys Rose is a Scottish fiction writer and poet. Born in 1954 in Glasgow, Rose studied at Edinburgh University,^[1] where she taught creative writing from 2002 until 2017.^[2] She was Director of the MSc in Creative Writing by Online Learning from 2012 to 2017.^[3] She is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Her third novel Unspeakable was published by Freight Books in 2017.

Awards and honours

Rose has won many awards, including the Canongate Prize, the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, and a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award; she has also been awarded a Society of Authors travel bursary and a UNESCO City of Literature exchange fellowship. Her poem 'Sailmaker's Palm' won the 2006 McCash Poetry Prize,^[4] and her poetry collection Bodywork was shortlisted for the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rose's novel Red Tides won the 1993 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.

Selected works

Poetry

• Madame Doubtfire's Dilemma, Chapman, 1989
• When I Wear My Leopard Hat: Poems for Young Children (illustrated by Gill Allan), Scottish Children's Press, 1997
• Lure, Chapman, 2003
• Bodywork, Luath, 2007
• Stone the Crows, Mariscat, 2020

Fiction

• Our Lady of the Pickpockets, Secker & Warburg, 1989
• Red Tides, Secker & Warburg, 1993
• War Dolls, Headline Review, 1998
• Pest Maiden, Headline Review, 1999 -
• Lord of Illusions, Luath Press, 2005 - "proves adept at swiftly establishing a mood"^[5]
• Selected Stories, Luath Press, 2005
• Pelmanism, Luath Press, 2014
• Unspeakable, Freight Books, 2017
• Sea Fret, Scotland Street Press, 2022

Short stories

• Sea Fret, Scotland Street Press, 2022 ^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Literary Festivals article on Dilys Rose . 25 January 2014 . 15 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190315072430/http://www.literaryfestivals.co.uk/authors/dilysrose.html . dead .
2. Web site: Contemporary Writers article on Dilys Rose . 20 August 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070409033130/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02D2L472612627193 . 9 April 2007 . dead .
3. Web site: Edinburgh University staff profile of Dilys Rose . 25 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103626/http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/staff/academic?person_id=175&cw_xml=profile.php . 2 February 2014 . dead .
4. http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/425 Scots Language Centre announcement
5. Web site: Fiction: Mar 26 . 2005-03-26 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20210223211907/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview26 . 2021-02-23 . live .
6. Web site: Scotland Street Press Bookstore Sea Fret . 2022-06-07 . www.scotlandstreetpress.com . en.