Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie share Forward prize for best collection
The Forward prize for best collection has two winners this year – the first time the prize has been shared – it was announced at the ceremony at London’s Southbank on Sunday night. The joint winners are Vidyan Ravinthiran, who was born in Leeds to Sri Lankan Tamil parents and now lives in the US, and Canadian poet Karen Solie. Vidyan Ravinthiran’s first book of poems, Grun-tu-molani (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), was shortlisted for ...
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