Kit Wright

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.

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. ==Awards== 1977: Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (awarded for The Bear Looked Over the Mountain) 1978: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (awarded for The Bear Looked Over the Mountain) 1985: Arts Council Writers' Award 1990: Heinemann Award (awarded for Short Afternoons) 1991: Hawthornden Prize (awarded for Short Afternoons) 1995: Cholmondeley Award 1997: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1999: King's Lynn Award for Merit in Poetry 2009: Honorary Fellowship at the English Association ==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== ==External links== Children's Poetry Archive article on Kit Wright The Oldie magazine Video of Kit Wright reading his poem The Magic Box to children

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