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Richard Price Author, Editor & Translator

Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English and Librarianship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, graduating in 1988 with a double first. Lucky Day (Carcanet, 2004), a Book of the Year in The Guardian and in Scotland on Sunday, was shortlisted for several prizes, including the Whitbread. He has two children and lives in London, where he is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library.