Moniza Alvi | |
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| Born | 2 February 1954  Lahore |
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| Occupation | Poet |
| Website | http://moniza.co.uk/ |
Moniza Alvi FRSL (born 2 February 1954) is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse. [1] She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. [2]
Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a Pakistani father and a British mother. [3] Her father moved to Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in England when Alvi was few months old. [4] She did not revisit Pakistan until after the publication of one of her first books of poems – The Country at My Shoulder. She worked for several years as a high-school teacher but is currently a freelance writer and tutor, living in Norfolk.[ citation needed ]
Peacock Luggage, a book of poems by Moniza Alvi and Peter Daniels, was published after the two poets jointly won the Poetry Business Prize in 1991, in Alvi's case for "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan". [5] That poem and "An Unknown Girl" have featured on England's GCSE exam syllabus for young teenagers.[ citation needed ]
Since then, Moniza Alvi has written four poetry collections. The Country at My Shoulder (1993) led to her being selected for the Poetry Society's New Generation Poets promotion in 1994. She also published a series of short stories, How the Stone Found its Voice (2005), inspired by Kipling's Just So Stories .[ citation needed ]
In 2002, she received a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry. In 2003 a selection of her poetry was published in a bilingual Dutch and English edition. [6] A selection from her earlier books, Split World: Poems 1990–2005, was published in 2008. [7]
On 16 January 2014, Alvi participated in the BBC Radio 3 series The Essay – Letters to a Young Poet. Taking Rainer Maria Rilke's classic text, Letters to a Young Poet as their inspiration, leading poets wrote a letter to a protégé. [8]
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