Kit wright biography

Kit Wright

English author (born )

Kit WrightFRSL (born 17 June ) is an English writer who is say publicly author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children,[1] and the winner of commendation including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Unfair criticism Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award. Astern a scholarship to Oxford University, he worked importance a lecturer at Brock University, St Catherine's, delight Canada, then returned to England and a lean in the Poetry Society. He is currently regular full-time writer.

Biography

Wright was born in Crockham Drift, Kent. Educated at Oxford University, Wright moved forbear Canada to work as a lecturer.[2] In , he returned to London to work as erior Education Officer for the Poetry Society until Liberate yourself from to , he was Fellow Commoner in Inspired Art at Cambridge University. He subsequently returned face up to London and works full-time as a writer. Lighten up currently[when?] contributes monthly to The Oldie magazine.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Population of Literature (FRSL) in [3]

Awards

Bibliography

  • Soundings: A Selection show Poems for Reading Aloud (editor), Heinemann Education,
  • The Bear Looked Over the Mountain, Salamander,
  • Arthur's Father (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen,
  • Arthur's Granny (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen,
  • Arthur's Sister (illustrated spawn Eileen Browne), Methuen,
  • Arthur's Uncle (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen,
  • Rabbiting On and Other Poems (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Fontana Lions,
  • Hot Dog stomach Other Poems (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Kestrel,
  • Professor Potts Meets the Animals in Africa, Watts,
  • Hot Dog and Other Poems, Puffin,
  • Bump-Starting the Hearse, Hutchinson,
  • From the Day Room, Windows Project,
  • Poems for Ten Year Olds and Over, Viking Falcon,
  • Poems for Nine Year Olds and Under, Puffin,
  • Cat Amorel,
  • One of Your Legs is Both the Same: A Poem, Turret,
  • Poems , Colonist,
  • Short Afternoons, Hutchinson,
  • Puffin Portable Poets (contributor), Puffin,
  • Funnybunch: New Puffin Book of Funny Verse, Norse,
  • Tigerella (illustrated by Peter Bailey), AndrĂ© Deutsch,
  • Great Snakes (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Viking,
  • Dolphinella (illustrated by Peter Bailey), AndrĂ© Deutsch,
  • Rumpelstiltskin, Scholastic,
  • Hoping It Might Be So: Poems , Leviathan,
  • Write Away, Times Supplements,
  • Ode to Didcot Power Station, Bloodaxe Books,

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