Kit Wright

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English author (born 1944)

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FieldValue
nameKit Wright
honorific_suffix
birth_date
birth_placeCrockham Hill, England
known_forPoet and children's author
alma_materOxford University
awardsGeoffrey Faber Memorial Prize;
Hawthornden Prize;
Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize;
Heinemann Award
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| name = Kit Wright | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Crockham Hill, England | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_name calling = | known_for = Poet and children's author | education = | alma_mater = Oxford University | awards = Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Hawthornden Prize; Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize; Heinemann Award | employer = | occupation = | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relations = | callsign = | signature = | website = | footnotes = Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944) is an English writer who is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award. After a scholarship to Oxford University, he worked as a lecturer at Brock University, St Catherine's, in Canada, then returned to England and a position in the Poetry Society. He is currently a full-time writer.

Biography

Wright was born in Crockham Hill, Kent. Educated at Oxford University, Wright moved to Canada to work as a lecturer. In 1970, he returned to London to work as an Education Officer for the Poetry Society until 1975. From 1977 to 1979, he was Fellow Commoner in Creative Art at Cambridge University. He subsequently returned to London and works full-time as a writer. He currently contributes monthly to The Oldie magazine.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997.

Awards

Bibliography

  • Soundings: A Selection of Poems for Reading Aloud (editor), Heinemann Education, 1975
  • The Bear Looked Over the Mountain, Salamander, 1977
  • Arthur's Father (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen, 1978
  • Arthur's Granny (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen, 1978
  • Arthur's Sister (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen, 1978
  • Arthur's Uncle (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen, 1978
  • Rabbiting on and Other Poems (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Fontana Lions, 1978
  • Hot Dog and Other Poems (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Kestrel, 1981
  • Professor Potts Meets the Animals in Africa, Watts, 1981
  • Hot Dog and Other Poems, Puffin, 1982
  • Bump-Starting the Hearse, Hutchinson, 1983
  • From the Day Room, Windows Project, 1983
  • Poems for Ten Year Olds and Over, Viking Kestrel, 1984
  • Poems for Nine Year Olds and Under, Puffin, 1985
  • Cat Amorel, 1987
  • One of Your Legs is Both the Same: A Poem, Turret, 1987
  • Poems 1974-1983, Hutchinson, 1988
  • Short Afternoons, Hutchinson, 1989
  • Puffin Portable Poets (contributor), Puffin, 1990
  • Funnybunch: New Puffin Book of Funny Verse, Viking, 1993
  • Tigerella (illustrated by Peter Bailey), André Deutsch, 1993
  • Great Snakes (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Viking, 1994
  • Dolphinella (illustrated by Peter Bailey), André Deutsch, 1995
  • Rumpelstiltskin, Scholastic, 1998
  • Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000, Leviathan, 2000
  • Write Away, Times Supplements, 2000
  • Ode to Didcot Power Station, Bloodaxe Books, 2014

References

References

  1. "Kit Wright". WorldCat.org.
  2. "Kit Wright". The British Council.
  3. (September 2023). "Kit Wright". The Royal Society of Literature.
  4. "Lynn Lit Fests: Merit Award".
  5. "English Association Fellowship Home Page". [[University of Leicester]].

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