{"id":446,"date":"2024-11-10T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T22:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=446"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:38:51","slug":"mimi-khalvati","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/mimi-khalvati\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi Khalvati"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Mimi Khalvati, awarded the King\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry 2023, has published nine collections with Carcanet Press, including:\u00a0<em>The Meanest Flower<\/em>, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2007;\u00a0<em>Child: New and Selected Poems 1991\u20132011<\/em>, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and\u00a0<em>The Weather Wheel<\/em>, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a Book of the Year in the <em>Independent<\/em>. Her most recent collection,\u00a0<em>Afterwardness<\/em>, was a 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card choice and a<em>\u00a0Sunday Times\u00a0<\/em>Book of the Year; her\u00a0<em>Collected Poems<\/em>, published by Carcanet in 2024, was awarded the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025. Mimi Khalvati is the founder of the Poetry School and has taught creative writing at universities and colleges in the USA and Britain. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society; other awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and a major Arts Council Writer\u2019s Award. Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and has lived most of her life in London. <em>Photo \u00a9 Justin Owen<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimi Khalvati, awarded the King\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry 2023, has published nine collections with Carcanet Press, including:\u00a0The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2007;\u00a0Child: New and Selected Poems 1991\u20132011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and\u00a0The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a Book of the Year in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":694,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-446","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}