Christine De Luca

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Christine De Luca (nee Pearson) was born and brought up in Shetland, spending her formative years in Waas (Walls) on the west side of the mainland. She now lives in Edinburgh. She writes in English and in Shetlandic which is a blend of Old Scots with much Norse influence. Shetland dialect is a lively mother tongue, still vibrant and enjoyed both for its onomatapoeic quality and its classlessness. Her main interest is poetry, but she is also active in promoting work with Shetland children and has written dialect stories for a range of age-groups. Prizes In 1996 she won the Shetland Literary Prize with her first poetry collection Voes & Sounds and again in 1999 with Wast Wi Da Valkyries. A third collection, Plain Song, was published in 2002 and Parallel Worlds followed in 2005. One of the poems in this collection, Makkin Sooth Eshaness, won the Rhoda Bulter Prize for Shetland Dialect, 2004. Christine's poem Seein Baith Sides won the The Shetland Writing Prize prize and also the prize for best poem in Shetland Dialect in 2006. She was also featured in the Best Scottish Poems 2006, selected by the author Janice Galloway and won the Prix du Livre insulaire 2007 pour Poésie for her new Bilingual Poetry Collection Mondes Parallèles. International Recognition Some of her poems have been translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Austrian-German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Welsh, Bengali, Turkish and even English. She has read her poem

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