Chris Dolan

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Biography

Award-winning poet, author and playwright Chris Dolan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first play, The Veil, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1991. His other plays include Sabina! (1998), a bittersweet comedy set in Glasgow, which won an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First in 1996, and which he adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2000. Sabina has had 9 productions to date.  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, and an adaptation of Eco's Name of the Rose will be broadcast in 2006. 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, is broadcast by the BBC in 2006. His writing for television includes episodes of Taggart and River City.

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, and his book Poor Angels and Other Stories (1995) was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His first novel, Ascension Day, was published in 1998, and won the McKitterick Prize. 

Chris Dolan is an experienced tutor working throughout the UK, and in Spain. He is currently working on two new novels. and a second collecton of short stories.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Drama, Fiction, Screenplay, Short stories

Bibliography

Poor Angels and Other Stories   Polygon, 1995

Ascension Day   Polygon, 1998

Sabina!   Faber and Faber, 1998

Read about books by Chris Dolan at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

Buy books by Chris Dolan at Amazon.co.uk

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Prizes and awards

1995   Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition   ('Sleet and Snow')

1995   Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award   (shortlist)   Poor Angels and Other Stories

1996   Edinburgh Festival Fringe First   Sabina!

1999   Canongate Prize for Journalism

1999   Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition   ('Year of the Vezzas')

1999   Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award

2000   McKitterick Prize   Ascension Day

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Faber and Faber Ltd 3 Queen Square London  WC1N 3AU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7465 0045 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7465 0034 E-mail: gapublicity@faber.co.uk http://www.faber.co.uk

Agent MacFarlane-Chard Associates Ltd 33 Percy Street London  W1T2DF England Tel: +44 (0)20 7636 7750 Fax: +44 (0)20 7636 7751 E-mail: enquiries@macfarlane-chard.co.uk http://www.macfarlane-chard.co.uk

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