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Moniza Alvi (born 2 February 1954) is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse.[1]

Moniza Alvi
Born2 February 1954  (age 68)
Lahore 
Alma mater
  • University of York 
OccupationPoet 
Websitehttp://moniza.co.uk/ 

Life and education


Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a Pakistani father and a British mother.[2] Her father moved to Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in England when she was a few months old.[3] She did not revisit Pakistan until after the publication of one of her first books of poems – The Country at My Shoulder. She worked for several years as a high-school teacher but is currently a freelance writer and tutor, living in Norfolk.


Poetry


Peacock Luggage, a book of poems by Moniza Alvi and Peter Daniels, was published after the two poets jointly won the Poetry Business Prize in 1991, in Alvi's case for "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan".[4] That poem and "An Unknown Girl" have featured on England's GCSE exam syllabus for young teenagers.

Since then, Moniza Alvi has written four poetry collections. The Country at My Shoulder (1993) led to her being selected for the Poetry Society's New Generation Poets promotion in 1994. She also published a series of short stories, How the Stone Found its Voice (2005), inspired by Kipling's Just So Stories.

In 2002 she received a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry. In 2003 a selection of her poetry was published in a bilingual Dutch and English edition.[5] A selection from her earlier books, Split World: Poems 1990–2005, was published in 2008.[6]

On 16 January 2014, Alvi participated in the BBC Radio 3 series The Essay – Letters to a Young Poet. Taking Rainer Maria Rilke's classic text, Letters to a Young Poet as their inspiration, leading poets wrote a letter to a protégé.[7]


Selected works



Poetry



Recordings



Further reading



References


  1. Thomas Riggs (1996). Contemporary Poets. St. James Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-55862-191-6.
  2. Mitali Pati Wong; Syed Khwaja Moinul Hassan (2013). The English Language Poetry of South Asians: A Critical Study. McFarland. pp. 92–4. ISBN 978-0-7864-3622-4.
  3. Biography, Moniza Alvi website.
  4. Sawnet Profile Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed March 2016.
  5. Het land aan mijn schouder. Translations by Kees Klok. Sliedrecht: Wagner & Van Santen, 2003. ISBN 90-76569-36-3.
  6. Bloodaxe, ISBN 978-1-85224-802-4
  7. "Moniza Alvi: The Essay, Letters to a Young Poet Episode 4 of 5", BBC Radio 3, 2014.



На других языках


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Moniza Alvi (née le 2 février 1954) est une écrivaine anglo-pakistanaise.



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