Robin Fulton is a Scottish poet and translator, born on 6 May 1937 on the Isle of Arran.
The son of a Church of Scotland minister, Robin Fulton was born in Arran in 1937.
Formerly he had taught school but afterwards moved to what was then the District College of Stavanger in Norway, rising to senior lecturer before retiring in 2006.
Collections of his own poems began appearing in 1963, initially in Scotland, then from English and US presses.
He has also translated many Scandinavian poets, which has gained him the Swedish Artur Lunkvist Award (1977), Swedish Academy Awards (1978, 1998) and the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize (2010).