Simon Armitage

Awards in Full

Awards:
1988 Eric Gregory Award
1992 One of the First Forward Poetry Prizes for Kid
1993 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
1994 Lannan Award
1998 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year for All Points North
2003 BAFTA winner
2003 Ivor Novello Award for songwriting
2004 Fellow of Royal Society for Literature
2005 Spoken Word Award (Gold) for The Odyssey

Zoom! was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Kid was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize. The Dead Sea Poems was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. Killing Time is the one-thousand line poem commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company. The Universal Home Doctor was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize. The Shout was shortlisted for the Nation Book Critics Circle Award (US).

Armitage wins Spoken Word Award

Armitage's translation of The Odyssey wins the Gold Award for Abridged fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005. The BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure starred Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman.

Feltham Sings Wins an Ivor Novello

The awards seem to be coming thick and fast for Simon Armitage at the moment. He just won an Ivor Novello award for Feltham Sings. The award cimes in the Category of Best Original Music for Television, and he wins it in conjunction with Dextrous.

Feltham Sings Wins a BAFTA

Armitage won his most prestigious award on the 23rd April, a BAFTA, for Feltham Sings. Made with Century Films/Channel 4, Feltham Sings stars young offenders at HMP Feltham.