Regi Claire

Regi Claire (born Muenchwilen, Thurgau Canton, Switzerland), is a novelist and short story writer living and working in Scotland. Her native language is Swiss-German, but she writes in English, her fourth language.[1]

Regi Claire
Born Muenchwilen, Thurgau Canton, Switzerland
Residence Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation Author

Life

Regi Claire studied English and German at the University of Zurich and University of Aberdeen, the latter on an exchange scholarship, then became a PhD student/research assistant at University of Zurich.

She is the author of four published books: two novels and two collections of short stories. Her first collection, Inside ~ Outside, published in 1998 by Scottish Cultural Press, and the second, Fighting It, published by Two Ravens Press in 2009, were both shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. Fighting It was also longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Her first novel, The Beauty Room, published in 2002 by Polygon/EUP (since 2013 also available as an e-book from Birlinn), was longlisted for MIND Book of the Year.[2] Her second novel, The Waiting, was published by Word Power in 2012.

Her first published short story won the Edinburgh Review Tenth Anniversary Short Story Competition. A later story was chosen as the Guardian newspaper's Radio Pick of the Day and another, 'The Tasting', was selected for Best British Short Stories 2013. She is a Cadenza prize-winner and has received bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, Pro Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council) and Thurgau Lottery Fund. She has received an award from UBS Cultural Foundation.

She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, from 2012-2015, and a Royal Literary Fund Lector for Reading Round Scotland from 2015-2017. She has been a creative writing tutor at the National Gallery of Scotland,[1] and Edinburgh City Art Centre.

She has collaborated with her husband, Ron Butlin, on poetry translations for the Scottish Poetry Library and the Goethe Institut. Publications include: The Night Begins with a Question: XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002 (Carcanet, 2007); Fife Lines: Poetry from Switzerland (2002); orte: Brücke nach Edinburgh (Switzerland, 1996).

She is a member of the Society of Authors, Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz and Scottish PEN (where she serves on the Writers at Risk Committee). She is also an honorary member of the Poetry Association of Scotland and the Swiss Club Edinburgh.

Family

She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, the writer Ron Butlin.[3]

Works

  • orte: Brücke nach Edinburgh (Switzerland, 1996)
  • Inside-Outside: Stories, Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1998. ISBN 9781840170238, OCLC 41894669
  • The Beauty Room, Edinburgh: Polygon/Edinburgh University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780748663224, OCLC 59417565
  • Tom Hubbard (ed) Fife Lines: Poetry from Switzerland; with translations by Scottish poets, Glenrothes: Russel Trust, 2002. OCLC 742488083
  • Iain Galbraith {ed} The Night Begins with a Question: XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002, Carcanet, 2007. OCLC 123271841
  • Fighting it, Ullapool: Two Ravens, 2009. ISBN 9781906120412, OCLC 317254562
  • The Waiting, Edinburgh: Word Power, 2012. ISBN 9780956628381, OCLC 820782559[4][5][6]
  • The Beauty Room. Birlinn. 2013. ISBN 978-0-85790-779-0. OCLC 865330725

References

  1. 1 2 "Regi Claire". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  2. ↑ "Author details:Regi Claire". Scottish Book Trust www.scottishbooktrust.com. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  3. ↑ "Regi Claire interview: The fight of her life". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  4. ↑ "Book review: The Waiting, Regi Claire". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Jacqueline. "Book Review: The Waiting by Regi Claire". The Bottle Imp. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  6. ↑ "The waiting by Regi Claire – Glasgow Women's Library". womenslibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
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