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David Farrier

Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

David Farrier is professor of literature and the environment at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. He is the author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020), which was a Times and Telegraph Book of the Year, and Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet (2025), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Conservation Writing prize and is longlisted for the 2025 Saltire Nonfiction Book of the Year prize. His books have been translated into 10 languages, and his writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Prospect and Emergence magazine.

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