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Hugo Williams The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Awarded In 2004

 
Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams

Award Name : The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Year of Award : 2004

Award for : Literature

Location : London, England, United Kingdom

 

Hugh Anthony Mordaunt Vyner Williams born on 20 February 1942 in Windsor and grew up in Sussex.He is a British poet, journalist and travel writer.He was educated at Eton College and worked on theLondon Magazine from 1961 to 1970. He writes a column in the Times Literary Supplement, has been poetry editor and TV critc on the New Statesman, theatre critic on the Sunday Corrrespondent, film critic for Harper's & Queen and a writer on popular music for Punch magazine. In 2004, he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry

His Collected Poems, which brings together work from eight books, was published in 2002. His poetry collection Dear Room (2006), was shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Poetry Award. His latest collection is West End Final (2009), shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize.

 

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