Simon Armitage
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Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963 is a British poet, playwright, and novelist. He has published nine volumes of poetry, including All Points North (1999), a collection of essays on the north of England, and two novels, Little Green Man (2001) and White Stuff (2004). His latest work is a dramatised version of Homer's Odyssey and a collection of poetry called Tyrannosaurus Rex vs The Courdroy Kid, both of which will be published in July 2006.
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Academic work
Born in Huddersfield, Armitage studied at the University of Portsmouth, and has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, where he lives, and at the University of Iowa's writers' workshop. He currently teaches at the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Literary work
Armitage also writes for radio, television, and film. He is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of Euripides' The Madness of Heracles.
He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including the Sunday Times Author of the Year, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Award, and an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings.
Armitage was one of the judges for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize.
On March 10, 2006, Armitage was named as one of the judges for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.