Henry Shukman
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Henry Shukman is an English poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and writer
Writer
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. In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Dr No's Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. His book was also the Book of the Year in The Times
The Times
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 and The Guardian
The Guardian
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, and he was selected as a Next Generation Poet in 2004.
As a fiction writer he won the Author’s Club First Novel Award in 2006 for his short novel Sandstorm (Jonathan Cape), and as well as winning an Arts Council England Writer’s Award, he has been a finalist for the O.Henry Prize. His second novel, The Lost City, was a The Guardian Book of the Year, and in America, where it was published by Knopf, it was a National Geographic Book of the Month. His poems have appeared in the New Republic, The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books. He has worked as a travelwriter, was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, and currently lives in New Mexico
New Mexico
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 with his wife and two sons, where he teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts
Institute of American Indian Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts is a college focused on Native American art. It is situated in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is congressionally chartered, and was created by an executive order of former American President John F. Kennedy in 1962...

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