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Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Renfrewshire, Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College in Edinburgh, before studying English at the University of Strathclyde.

His publications include Lucky Day (Carcanet, 2005), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. He has published a volume of short stories, A Boy in Summer, (11:9, 2002) and has completed his first novel The Island. 

He is the Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library.

Richard Price's website: www.hydrohotel.net