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Biography masterclass

A Biography Masterclass at the University of St Andrews this week (21 and 22 April 2006) will bring five prominent life-writers together to discuss the art and craft of literary biography.

Top of the tree

A collection of poems by creative writing lecturer Kathleen Jamie has won Scotland's 'most valuable literary prize'.

Oor wullie: Burns and Shakespeare

An academic at the University of St Andrews has claimed that it was as a direct result of the influence of Robert Burns that Shakespeare became known as 'the bard'.

Erasing the Renaissance

A leading expert in Renaissance culture will today examine the likelihood that writers of the late sixteenth century had the equivalent to our modern notebooks and palm pilots.