Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962) is an English poet and novelist. She was born in London, where she still lives, currently working as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and a part-time tutor for the MA Creative and Life Writing Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London.cite web|url=http://www.laviniagreenlaw.co.uk/lavinia_greenlaw_biography.htm|title=Lavinia Greenlaw Bio|accessdate=2007-06-14] [cite web|url=http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/staff/l-greenlaw.php|title=Goldsmiths College > Department of English & Comparative Literature|accessdate=2007-06-14]

Biography

Though Greenlaw was born in London, she spent much of her childhood in a small village in Essex. [cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200310130048|title=New Statesman - Poetry - Essex girl|accessdate=2007-06-14|last=Newey|first=Adam|date=2003-10-13|work=New Statesman] Born into a family of doctors and scientists, [cite web|url=http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1997/97-213.html|title=Poet Lavinia Greenlaw To Read at Library of Congress December 23, 1997|accessdate=2007-06-14|date=1997-12-23|publisher=The Library of Congress] she began her working life in publishing and arts administration before embarking upon a career as a freelance artist, critic and radio broadcaster.

Writings

Her work is heavily informed by her interest in science and scientific enquiry, and by themes of displacement, loss and belonging. [cite web|url=http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=6167|title=Lavinia Greenlaw - Poetry Archive|accessdate=2007-06-14] [cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200103190042|title=A girl in my head|accessdate=2007-06-14|last=Allardice|first=Lisa|date=2001-03-19|work=New Statesman] Critics have noted that her poetry is remarkable in its precision, and that her best poems contain a complexity and elusiveness that lead them to 'appreciate with each re-reading'.

Awards

Lavinia Greenlaw has been shortlisted for a number of literary awards, including the Whitbread Book Award (now known as the Costa Book Awards) and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. She won the French "Prix du Premier Roman" [cite web|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts//author//lavinia_greenlaw/profile.html|title=Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film: Lavinia Greenlaw Profile|accessdate=2007-06-14|work=Guardian Unlimited] for her first novel, "Mary George of Allnorthover" and, most notably, the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for 'A World Where News Travelled Slowly', the title poem from her second major collection.

elected works

* "The Cost of Getting Lost in Space", Turret Books, 1991
* "Love from a Foreign City", Slow Dancer Press, 1992
* "Night Photograph", Faber and Faber, 1993
* "A World Where News Travelled Slowly", Faber and Faber, poetry, 1997
* "Mary George of Allnorthover", Flamingo, novel 2001
* "Minsk", Faber and Faber, poetry, 2003
* "Thoughts of a Night Sea" (Photographs by Garry Fabian Miller), Merrell, 2003
* "An Irresponsible Age", Fourth Estate, 2006
* "The Importance of Music to Girls", Faber and Faber, 2007 [http://us.macmillan.com/theimportanceofmusictogirls]

References

External links

* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/laviniagreenlaw Lavinia Greenlaw at FSG]


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