James Kirkup

James Kirkup

BornJames Harold Kirkup
23 April 1918 (1918-04-23)
England
Died10 May 2009(2009-05-10) (aged 91)
Andorra
Pen name
  • James Falconer
  • Aditya Jha
  • Jun Honda
  • Andrew James
  • Taeko Kawai
  • Felix Liston
  • Edward Raeburn
  • Ivy B. Summerforest
OccupationPoet, writer, translator
Alma materDurham University
GenrePoetry, fiction, journalism

James Harold Kirkup FRSL (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009)[1] was an English poet, translator and travel writer. He wrote more than 45 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays. He wrote under many pen-names including James Falconer, Aditya Jha, Jun Honda, Andrew James, Taeko Kawai, Felix Liston, Edward Raeburn, and Ivy B. Summerforest.[2] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.

  1. ^ Shields Gazette, 16 December 1939
  2. ^ "Collection: James Kirkup papers | Archives at Yale". hdl:10079/fa/beinecke.kirkup. Retrieved 28 May 2022.