{"id":922,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/kayo-chingonyi\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:56:13","slug":"kayo-chingonyi","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/kayo-chingonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayo Chingonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is the author of two pamphlets and a fellow of the Complete Works programme. In 2012 he was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was Associate Poet at the ICA in 2015. His first full-length collection, <em>Kumukanda <\/em>(Chatto &amp; Windus, 2017) won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for a Costa Poetry Award. It was also shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Kayo was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester, before joining Durham University as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. His most recent collection is <em>A Blood Condition<\/em> (Chatto &amp; Windus, 2021), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. <em>Author \u00a9 Smart Banda<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kayochingonyi.com\/\">www.kayochingonyi.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is the author of two pamphlets and a fellow of the Complete Works programme. In 2012 he was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was Associate Poet at the ICA in 2015. His first full-length collection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":923,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-922","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/922","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\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}