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Author Description Matthew Fitt is a Scots poet and novelist. He was born in 1968 in Dundee, Scotland. Previously writer-in-residence at Greater Pollok in Glasgow, he is currently National Scots Language Development Officer and writes a column in Scots for <i>The National</i> newspaper.<br /><br />In 2002, together with James Robertson and Susan Rennie, he co-founded <i>Itchy Coo</i>, a publishing imprint and educational project to reintroduce schoolchildren to the Scots tongue.<br /><br />His best known work is <i>But n Ben A-Go-Go</i>, a cyberpunk novel in Scots. Earlier works included <i>The Hoose o Haivers</i>, a loose retelling of the Metamorphoses of Ovid in Scots and <i>The Smoky Smirr o Rain</i>, a Scots anthology. He also wrote the lyrics to <i>Icker in a Thrave</i>, the 2007 Scots entry for the Liet-Lavlut song contest for minority languages in Europe.<br /><br />Fitt has translated several Asterix books into Scots. The first was <i>Asterix and the Pechts</i>, published in 2013. He has also translated several Roald Dahl novels, including <i>The Twits</i> (<i>The Eejits</i>), <i>George's Marvellous Medicine</i> (<i>Geordie’s Mingin Medicine</i>) and <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i> (<i>Chairlie and the Chocolate Works</i>).

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