Andrew Motion - Selected Honours and Awards

Selected Honours and Awards

  • 1975: won the Newdigate prize for Oxford undergraduate poetry
  • 1976: Eric Gregory Award
  • 1981: wins Arvon Foundation's International Poetry Competition with The Letter
  • 1984: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984
  • 1986: Somerset Maugham Award for The Lamberts
  • 1987: Dylan Thomas Prize for Natural Causes
  • 1999: appointed Poet Laureate for ten years
  • 1994: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, Whitbread Prize for Biography
  • 2009: Knighthood

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