Lavinia Greenlaw

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lavinia Greenlaw
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 30, 1962(1962-07-30)
Age	62
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Cancer

Lavinia Greenlaw Biography

Lavinia Greenlaw is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 30, 1962 in London, England, United Kingdom. Lavinia Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is a famous English novelist and poet. She was awarded the Prix du Premier Roman with her debut novel, and her poems have been selected for prizes including The T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Whitbread Poetry Prize. The 2013 Costa Poetry Award was for A Double Sorrow: A Variation that combines Troilus as well as Criseyde. Greenlaw is currently the position that of professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Greenlaw’s freelance career as an journalist, broadcaster and artist started in the year 1994. Greenlaw was the first artist-in-residence in the Science Museum (1994-1995), and has also held residencies in the Royal Festival Hall, at an London solicitors firm (1997-1998) as well as with the Royal Society of Medicine (2004). In 2013, she was awarded an engagement Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust. The sound piece Audio Obscura was made during 2011 from Artangel along with Manchester International Festival which was performed in Manchester Piccadilly station in July 2011, and London’s St Pancras International Station in September and October of 2011. It was awarded the 2011 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry The judges describing it as “groundbreaking”.

Greenlaw taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She served as professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia from 2007 to 2013, and as a visiting professor at King’s College London (2015–2016) and Freie Universität Berlin (2017). She currently holds the post of Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London.

After judging the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize, Greenlaw chaired in 2014 the judging panel for the inaugural Folio Prize. She is a Council member of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Poetry Society.

Lavinia Greenlaw won the Eric Gregory Award in 1990 Lavinia Greenlaw was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 1990, the Arts Council Writers award in 1995 as well as the Cholmondeley Award as well as an Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. In 1994, she was selected as one of twenty New Generation Poets. In 1997, she was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for “A World Where News Travelled Slowly” The title poem of her second collection.

Lavinia Greenlaw Net Worth

Lavinia Greenlaw is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lavinia Greenlaw 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Greenlaw was an “talking head” on the BBC documentaries Top of the Pops: The Story of 1976 (2011) and The Joy of the Single (2012).

Greenlaw was able to complete her studies in contemporary art in the course at Kingston Polytechnic. She continued her studies at the London College of Printing and earned the MA in art and history from the Courtauld Institute. She was an editor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (1985-1986) as well as with the publishing house Allison and Busby (1986-1987) followed by Earthscan (1988-90). She also served as an arts manager for Southbank Centre (1990-1991) and the London Arts Board (1991-1994).

For her 2001 first novel, Mary George of Allnorthover, Greenlaw won the French Prix du Premier Roman. She has been shortlisted for a number of literary awards, including the Whitbread Book Award (now the Costa Book Awards) and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her short story “We Are Watching Something Terrible Happening” was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013.

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Lavinia Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Lavinia Greenlaw celebrates birthday on July 30 of every year.