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Educated at [[Oxford University]], Wright moved to [[Canada]] to work as a lecturer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth226 |title= Kit Wright|accessdate= 3 April 2010|author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= The British Council|pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> 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 [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. He subsequently returned to London and works full-time as a writer. He currently contributes monthly to ''[[The Oldie]]'' magazine.
Educated at [[Oxford University]], Wright moved to [[Canada]] to work as a lecturer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth226 |title= Kit Wright|accessdate= 3 April 2010|author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= The British Council|pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> 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 [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. He subsequently returned to London and works full-time as a writer. He currently contributes monthly to ''[[The Oldie]]'' magazine.


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==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 of Great Britain|Arts Council]] Writers' Award
*1990: [[Heinemann Award]] (awarded for ''Short Afternoons'')
*1991: [[Hawthornden Prize]] (awarded for ''Short Afternoons'')
*1995: [[Cholmondeley Award]]
*1999: [[King's Lynn Award for Merit in Poetry]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lynnlitfests.com/merit.asp|title=Lynn Lit Fests: Merit Award|accessdate=2009-03-18}}</ref>
*2009: Honorary Fellowship at the [[English Association]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fellows/2009.html|title=English Association Fellowship Home Page|publisher=[[University of Leicester]]|accessdate=2010-09-30}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

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Kit Wright
Born (1944-06-17) 17 June 1944 (age 80)
Crockham Hill
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materOxford University
Known forpoet and children's author
WebsiteI

Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children,[1] 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 (jointly) 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.

Early life

Educated at Oxford University, Wright moved to Canada to work as a lecturer.[2] 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.

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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 Among the Pigeons, Viking Kestrel, 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

  1. ^ "Kit Wright". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 3 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "Kit Wright". The British Council. Retrieved 3 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
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