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Fiona SampsonFiona Sampson has published fifteen books – including poetry, philosophy of language and books on writing process – of which the most recent are Common Prayer (Carcanet 2007), Writing: Self and Reflexivity (with Celia Hunt, Macmillan, 2005) and a book of essays, On Listening (Salt, 2007). Her awards include the Newdigate Prize; ‘Trumpeldor Beach’ was short-listed for the 2006 Forward prize; and she has been widely translated, with eight books in translation, including Patuvachki Dnevnik (Travel Diary), awarded the 2003 Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia). Other prizes include writers’ awards from the Arts Councils of England and Wales and the Society of Authors, and, in the US, the Literary Review’s Charles Angoff Award. Educated at Oxford and Nijmegen, she has a PhD in the philosophy of language and was AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Oxford Brookes University in 2002-5. She consults internationally on writing in health care and contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times and other publications; she was recently appointed an RSC/Warwick Fellow in Creativity and Performance at the University of Warwick. Her many translations include Jaan Kaplinski’s Evening Brings Everything Back; an anthology of younger Central European poets; and Orient Express, of which she was founding editor. She is the editor of Poetry Review. |
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