Robert Edward Gurney  Robert Edward Gurney, Luton, England, 1939, is a British writer. He lives in St Albans, England. He studied Modern Languages at St Andrews University in Scotland. He has travelled widely in Europe, Africa and Latin America. Between 1964 and 1967 he studied and worked in Uganda. In 1972 he conducted interviews with the Spanish poet Juan Larrea in Córdoba, Argentina. He obtained a doctorate in Spanish from the University of London in 1975, thesis title:The Poetry of Juan Larrea. He lectured on Modern French Poetry, The Generation of ’27 and Modern Latin American Poetry at Middlesex University. Much of Gurney's work is in the British Library and the National Library of Wales. He writes in English and Spanish. In 2014 he was filmed for the series on contemporary poets (Spain).