Pascale Petit (poet)

Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit
Born (1953-12-20) 20 December 1953 (age 70)
Paris, France
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityFrench and British
Alma materRoyal College of Art
Period1994–present
Notable works
  • Mama Amazonica (2017)
Notable awards
  • RSL Ondaatje Prize, 2018
  • Laurel Prize for Poetry, 2020

Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953),[1] is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India.

Petit has published eight poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her seventh collection Mama Amazonica won the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2018 and the inaugural Laurel Prize for Poetry in 2020.[2] In 2018, Petit was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[3]

  1. ^ "Pascale Petit". lidiavianu.scriptmania.com. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Petit takes inaugural Laurel Prize for Mama Amazonica | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Pascale Petit". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 24 June 2021.