{"id":8354,"date":"2025-03-14T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8354"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:41:18","slug":"simon-armitage","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/simon-armitage\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Armitage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.\u00a0His collections of poetry, which have received numerous awards, include <em>Seeing Stars<\/em> (2010), <em>The Unaccompanied<\/em> (2017), <em>Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic<\/em> (2019), <em>Magnetic Field<\/em> (2020) and his acclaimed translation of <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em> (2007). He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize five times. He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers <em>All Points North<\/em> (1998), <em>Walking Home<\/em> (2012) and <em>Walking Away <\/em>(2015). His theatre works include <em>The Last Days of Troy<\/em>, performed at Shakespeare\u2019s Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Paul Stuart Photography Ltd<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This biography is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\">Faber &amp; Faber website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.\u00a0His collections of poetry, which have received numerous awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10550,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8354","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8354","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\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}