Who among the following has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014?
Who among the following has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014?
[A]Imtiaz Dharker
[B]Ryan Adams
[C]Salman Akhtar
[D]Javed Akhtar
Imtiaz Dharker
The Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker has been awarded the Queen’s gold medal for poetry. Dharker was born in Lahore in 1954 and grew up in Glasgow as what she calls a “Muslim Calvinist” before eloping with an Indian Hindu to live in Bombay. She later moved to Britain when she married the late Simon Powell, the founder of Poetry Live.
Originally written on
December 24, 2014
and last modified on
December 24, 2014.