Blake Morrison grew up near Skipton in Yorkshire and was formerly literary editor of the Observer <\/i>and the Independent on Sunday.<\/i> His first book was a critical study of the Movement poets, including Philip Larkin. Other books include two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father?<\/i> (made into a film with Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth) and Things My Mother Never Told Me<\/i>; two opera libretti and several song sequences, written for the composer Gavin Bryars; a children\u2019s book, The Yellow House<\/i>; a study of the James Bulger murder case, As If<\/i>; collection of essays and stories, Too True<\/i>; the poetry collections Dark Glasses<\/i>, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper and Shingle Street<\/i>; and four novels, including The Last Weekend<\/i> (which was dramatised for television).<\/p>\n
His play adaptations for Northern Broadsides include The Cracked Poet<\/i>, Lisa\u2019s Sex Strike<\/i> and We Are Three Sisters.<\/i> He has won various awards, including the Eric Gregory, EM Forster and JR Ackerley prizes. His latest memoir, Two Sisters<\/i>, came out in 2023 along with the poetry pamphlets Skin & Blister<\/i> and Never the Right Time<\/i>. He was Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University from 2003-2023. Author photo \u00a9 Charles Moriarty<\/em><\/p>\n This biography of Blake Morrison is taken from the C&W Agency website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blake Morrison grew up near Skipton in Yorkshire and was formerly literary editor of the Observer and the Independent on Sunday. His first book was a critical study of the Movement poets, including Philip Larkin. Other books include two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (made into a film with Jim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9840,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8553","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8553","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\/9840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}