Chris Arthur

Chris Arthur was born in Belfast and grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. He’s author of seven essay collections, most recently Hummingbirds Between the Pages (2018) and Reading Life (2017). A selected essays volume, Words of the Grey Wind appeared in 2009. His writing prizes include: the Akegarasu Haya International Essay Prize, a Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, the Monroe K. Spears Essay Prize, Times Higher/Palgrave Macmillan Writing Prize in the Humanities, and the Gandhi Foundation's Aitchtey Memorial Essay Prize. In 2014 he became a Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund. Chris lives in Fife with his family. Further information about all his books can be found at www.chrisarthur.org.