Draft:Zaffar Kunial
Zaffar Kunial | |
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| Born | Zaffar Iqbal Kunial 1972 Birmingham, England |
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Zaffar Iqbal Kunial (born 1972) is a British poet, essayist and academic.
Early life
[edit]Kunial was born in Birmingham to an English mother and a Kashmiri father. He graduated from the London School of Economics. He later took classes with Michael Donaghy at City, University of London.
Kunial lives in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.
Bibliography
[edit]Collections
[edit]- Us (2018)
- England's Green (2022)
Pamphlets
[edit]- Zaffar Kunial: Faber New Poets 11 (2014)
- Six (2019)
Select contributions
[edit]- The Shape Remembrance Takes, 5 poems in The Pity (2014)
- "Laburnum Time", essay in Arboreal (2016)
Accolades
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Title | Result | Ref |
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| 2011 | National Poetry Competition | "Hill Speak" | Third | ||
| 2013 | Northern Writers' Award | Won | |||
| 2014 | Geoffrey Dearmer Prize | Won | |||
| 2018 | T. S. Eliot Prize | Us | Shortlisted | [1] | |
| Costa Book Awards | Poetry Prize | Shortlisted | |||
| 2022 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes | ||||
| 2023 | Laurel Prize for Poetry | Second | |||
| 2023 | Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize | Won | |||
References
[edit]- ^ Flood, Alison (18 October 2018). "TS Eliot prize announces 'intensely political' shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
Category:Alumni of City, University of London
Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics
Category:British Asian writers
Category:English people of Kashmiri descent
Category:Writers from Birmingham, West Midlands