Blake Morrison
1950
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Nottingham, University College London, McMaster University, Ermysted's Grammar School
award received: Eric Gregory Award, E. M. Forster Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Somerset Maugham Award
position held: Booker Prize judge
Philip Blake Morrison FRSL (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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