{"id":8176,"date":"2025-03-11T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8176"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:53:15","slug":"james-fenton","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/james-fenton\/","title":{"rendered":"James Fenton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994\u201399. His poetry collections include <em>Children in Exile<\/em> and <em>Out of Danger<\/em>, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 1993 and won the Whitbread Prize. He wrote libretti for <em>Haroun and the Sea of Stories<\/em> (New York City Opera) and <em>Tsunami Song Cycle<\/em> (BBC Symphony Orchestra), and his theatre includes <em>Pictures from an Exhibition<\/em> (Young Vic), and <em>Tamar&#8217;s Revenge<\/em> and <em>The Orphan of Zhao<\/em> (both for the Royal Shakespeare Company). In 2007 James Fenton was awarded the Queen&#8217;s Gold Medal for Poetry. He is editor of <em>The New Faber Book of Love Poems<\/em>. <em>Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968\u20132011<\/em> was published by Faber &amp; Faber in 2012. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Gerrit Sern\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesfenton.com\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.jamesfenton.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This complete biography of James Fenton is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faber &amp; Faber website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8203,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8176","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8176","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\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}