Katherine Pierpoint
Katherine Pierpoint | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Exeter University |
Notable work | Truffle Beds |
Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961) is an English poet. She is best known for her book Truffle Beds which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Life and career
Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961.
Truffle Beds, Pierpoint's first poetry book, was published in 1995 and won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.[1] Her second book, a collection of translated poems by Coral Bracho, was written alongside Tom Boll and published in 2008.[2]
She won a Hawthornden International Creative Writing Fellowship in 1993
References
- ^ a b c "Katherine Pierpoint". poetrytranslation.org. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Katherine Pierpoint". British Council. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ "Katherine Pierpoint". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 15 July 2017.