| Liz
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| Nationality - Scottish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 1947
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Date of death - Still with us |
| Place of birth
- Motherwell : Lanarkshire |
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Liz Lochhead was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire in 1947. She attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1965 and 1970 and, after graduation, worked as a teacher of fine art in Glasgow and Bristol, a career at which she claims to have been a total disaster.
During the 1970s Liz was a member of the prestigious writer’s group initiated by Philip Hobsbaum and which included the new talents of Alasdair Gray, Tom Leonard and James Kelman. During this time Liz was also putting her talents to good use in a collection of poems that would later be published as Memo for Spring (1972) which received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
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Shortly afterwards, in 1978, Liz made her first venture into drama with her revue, Sugar and Spite. In this same year her award of the Scottish/Canadian Writers Exchange Fellowship allowed Lochhead to abandon teaching for writing full-time.
In 1986 Lochhead married the architect, Tom Logan, and they made Glasgow their home.
During her career Lochhead has been described variously as a poet, feminist playwright, translator and broadcaster but has said that ‘when somebody asks me what I do I usually say writer. The most precious thing to me is to be a poet. If I were a playwright, I’d like to be a poet in the theatre.’ Lochhead’s careers as poet and playwright have always been co-existent. Between 1986-7 she was Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University and a year later Writer in Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The 1990s saw a move away from the more overtly feminist agenda of her early works and into a wider concern with issues of voice in general.
1991 saw the publication of Bagpipe Muzak and a movement into film with the BBC screening of Liz’s short film Latin for A Dark Room as part of the Tartan Shorts series.
More recently, her adaptation of Euripedes’ Medea won the 2000 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award and in that same year she was awarded an honorary literary degree from the University of Edinburgh.
Liz has also adapted Moliere’s The Misanthrope into a satire on the modern Scottish Parliament in the play, Miseryguts (2002), and another collection of poems, The Colour of Black and White was published in 2003. |
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