Sean O'Brien (writer)

Sean O'Brien FRSL
Born	(1952-12-19) 19 December 1952 (age 71) London, England
Nationality	British
Education	Hymers College; Selwyn College, Cambridge
Genres	Poet, critic, playwright
Notable works	The Drowned Book (2007)
Notable awards	Eric Gregory Award (1979); Somerset Maugham Award (1984); Cholmondeley Award (1988); Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007); T. S. Eliot Prize (2007)

Sean O'Brien FRSL (born 19 December 1952) is a British poet, critic and playwright. Prizes he has won include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only four poets (the others being Ted Hughes, John Burnside and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (The Drowned Book).

Born in London, England, O'Brien grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge.^[1] He has lived since 1990 in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he teaches at the university.^[2] He was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford, for 2016–17.^[3]