Frank Knupper

Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951 and has lived there ever since. He has been Writer in Residence at various institutions, most recently, Strathclyde University in Glasgow.

His writings, both prose and poetry, have attracted some critical acclaim and his distinctive voice marks him out as a truly original voice. His work has not yet brought him commercial success, however, despite winning national awards, and he remains a vastly underrated writer.

In 1994 he wrote A Very Quiet Street, part-meditation and part-investigation of the Oscar Slater case, a Glasgow murder case from the 1920s. In 1995 he won the McVitie’s Writer of the Year Award with Something Very Like Murder. This was followed by Life on a Dead Planet. His latest collection is The Same Life Twice.