Selima Hill | |
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Born | Seilima Wood 13 October 1945 Hampstead, England |
Occupation | Academic, poet |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Education | Cambridge University |
Notable works | Violet (1997) Bunny (2001) |
Notable awards | Cholmondeley Award (1986) Whitbread Book Award (2001) King's Gold Medal for Poetry |
Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945) is a British poet. She has published twenty poetry collections since 1984. Her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the most important British poetry awards: the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. She was selected as recipient of the 2022 King's Gold Medal for Poetry.