Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the British Poetry Revival. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. He is the last survivor of the canonical 'Big Seven' (the others being Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Garioch, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, and Sorley MacLean).

Awards¹

• 1972 PEN Memorial Medal (Hungary)
• 1982 OBE
• 1983 Royal Bank of Scotland Book of the Year Award
• 1985 Soros Translation Award (New York)
• 1998 Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year for Virtual and Other Realities
• 2000 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
• 2001 Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Jean Racine: Phaedra