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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


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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