Polly Clark

**Polly Clark** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1968) marubuciya ce kuma mawaƙiya 'yar ƙasar Kanada da aka haifa a ƙasar Birtaniya.  Ita ce marubucin *Larchfield* (2017), wanda ya ƙirƙira wani lokaci na ƙuruciya a rayuwar mawaƙi WH Auden, da *Tiger* (2019) game da daular ƙarshe ta damisar Siberian daji. Ta buga littattafai huɗu na waƙoƙi masu daraja. Tana zaune a Helensburgh, Scotland .

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Clark a Toronto kuma ya zo Birtaniya tun yana ƙarama, yana girma a Cumbria, Lancashire da kuma Scottish Borders .  Ta kammala karatun digiri a Turanci da Falsafa daga Jami'ar Liverpool kuma ta kammala digiri na biyu a fannin adabin Turanci (MA) a Jami'ar Oxford Brookes . 

## Sana'a
Tsakanin 2007 da 2017 ta samar da Shirin wallafe-wallafen a Cove Park, Cibiyar Mazaunin Masu Wasanni ta Duniya ta Scotland, kusa da Helensburgh .  Ta kasance mawaki a mazaunin Southern Daily Echo kuma ta jagoranci kuma ta gabatar da marubucin Richard Ford a kan wani yawon shakatawa na gidan wasan kwaikwayo a kudu maso gabashin Ingila a shekara ta 2004. Ta rike wasu ayyuka don tallafawa rubuce-rubucenta, gami da wani lokaci a matsayin malamin Turanci a Hungary, tana aiki a wallafe-wallafen a Oxford University Press,  kuma a matsayin mai kula da namun daji a Edinburgh Zoo. 

Tun bayan lashe kyautar Eric Gregory ga matasa mawaka a shekarar 1997, ta buga tarin waƙoƙi guda uku da ƙasida ɗaya. An zaɓi waƙoƙinta don samun kyautar TS Eliot da kyautar Michael Marks.

An buga littafinta na farko, *Larchfield*, a watan Maris na 2017 kuma ya dogara ne akan ɗan lokacin da WH Auden ya yi a matsayin malami a Kwalejin Larchfield, wanda yanzu aka haɗa shi da Makarantar Lomond, a Helensburgh, Scotland (inda ya rubuta *The Orators* ).  *Larchfield* ya lashe Gasar Labarin Mata ta Mslexia ta 2015 (a ƙarƙashin taken daftarinsa, *Lokacin da Auden Met Dora* ).  Ya sami yabo daga Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford da Louis de Bernieres .  David Robinson a cikin The National da *Books daga Scotland* ya kira shi "mai lankwasa, wayo, mai jan hankali".  John Boyne 'Mai sihiri da wuce gona da iri ... Ina zargin cewa kaɗan daga cikin fitowar fim ɗin a 2017 za su dace da kyawun Larchfield. Wannan labari ne mai kyau: mai sha'awa, mai waƙa da ban mamaki. Zan tuna Larchfield na dogon lokaci.'  Stuart Kelly a cikin *littafin The Scotsman* ya yi suka, yana mai cewa "ba aikin da zan ba da shawarar mai karatu ya rabu da kuɗi ba ne". 

A cikin 2017, Clark ya ba da gudummawa ga wani shirin BBC2 game da rayuwar Auden, wanda ya lashe BAFTA Adam Low  ya jagoranta kuma ya rubuta wani yanki ga Guardian game da haihuwa.  Tare da mawaki Glyn Maxwell da marubuci kuma mai sharhi na al'adu Matthew Sweet ta tattauna W.H. Auden's Age of Anxiety a BBC Radio 3 don 2018 BBC Proms Production of Leonard Bernstein's symphonic interpretation of the poet's work: Age of Anchiety . 

A cikin rubutun da Liz Jensen ta yi a *jaridar Guardian*, ta sanya littafin Clark na biyu mai suna "The Bees" mai ban tsoro da ban sha'awa, *Tiger* a cikin jerin littattafan da suka fi jan hankali tare da littafin Laline Paull mai suna *The Bees* da kuma littafin Richard Powers mai suna *The Overstory*, wanda ke fuskantar rayuwar da ba ta ɗan adam ba ta hanyoyi daban-daban.  Allan Massie a cikin *littafin The Scotsman* ya bayyana shi a matsayin "mai ban sha'awa da ban tsoro", ya ƙara da cewa littafin "ba shakka zai yi kyau sosai - kuma ya cancanci hakan".  Domin yin bincike kan littafin, Clark ya yi rangadin bin diddigin damisa zuwa taiga ta Rasha mai nisa.  An zaɓi *Tiger* a cikin jerin sunayen waɗanda suka yi nasara a kyautar Saltire Book of the Year Awards ta 2019.

## Ayyuka

### Tarin waƙoƙi

* *Kiss* ( Littattafan Bloodaxe 2000; Shawarar Ƙungiyar Littattafan Waƙoƙi)
* *Tafi da Ni* (Littattafan Bloodaxe 2005; Zaɓar Ƙungiyar Littattafan Waƙoƙi; an zaɓe shi don Kyautar TS Eliot )
* *Farewell My Lovely* (Littattafan Bloodaxe 2009)
* *Littafin Jagora don Rayuwa Bayan Rai* (Templar 2015; an zaɓi waɗanda za su yi nasara a gasar Michael Marks Awards )

## Manazarta