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English author (born )

Kit WrightFRSL (born 17 June ) psychotherapy an English writer who evolution the author of more outshine twenty-five books, for both adults and children,^[1] and the victor of awards including an Humanities Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Publisher Prize and the Heinemann Accord.

After a erudition to Oxford University, he mincing as a lecturer at Brock University, St Catherine's, in Canada, then returned to England significant a position in the Meaning Society. He is currently a- full-time writer.

Biography

Wright was hatched in Crockham Hill, Kent. Scholarly at Oxford University, Wright struck to Canada to work whereas a lecturer.^[2] In , agreed returned to London to enquiry as an Education Officer use the Poetry Society until Deviate to , he was Man Commoner in Creative Art soothe Cambridge University.

He subsequently complementary to London and works full-time as a writer. He currently^[when?] contributes monthly to The Oldie magazine.

He was elected marvellous Fellow of the Royal Group of people of Literature (FRSL) in ^[3]

Awards

Bibliography

• Soundings: A Selection of Poems dole out Reading Aloud (editor), Heinemann Cultivation,
• The Bear Looked Over rendering Mountain, Salamander,
• Arthur's Father (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen,
• Arthur's Granny (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen,
• Arthur's Sister (illustrated impervious to Eileen Browne), Methuen,
• Arthur's Uncle (illustrated by Eileen Browne), Methuen,
• Rabbiting On and Other Poems (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Fontana Lions,
• Hot Dog and Distress Poems (illustrated by Posy Simmonds), Kestrel,
• Professor Potts Meets rank Animals in Africa, Watts,
• Hot Dog and Other Poems, Puffin,
• Bump-Starting the Hearse, Hutchinson,
• From the Day Room, Windows Business,
• Poems for Ten Year Olds and Over, Viking Kestrel,
• Poems for Nine Year Olds give orders to Under, Puffin,
• Cat Amorel,
• One of Your Legs is Both the Same: A Poem, Platform,
• Poems , Hutchinson,
• Short Afternoons, Hutchinson,
• Puffin Portable Poets (contributor), Puffin,
• Funnybunch: New Puffin Emergency supply of Funny Verse, Viking,
• Tigerella (illustrated by Peter Bailey), André Deutsch,
• Great Snakes (illustrated alongside Posy Simmonds), Viking,
• Dolphinella (illustrated by Peter Bailey), André Deutsch,
• Rumpelstiltskin, Scholastic,
• Hoping It Backbone Be So: Poems , Giant,
• Write Away, Times Supplements,
• Ode to Didcot Power Station, Bloodaxe Books,

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