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Sean O'Brien was born on 19 December, 1952 in London, England, is a British poet, critic and playwright (born 1952). Discover Sean O'Brien's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December 1952
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1952

Sean O'Brien FRSL (born 19 December 1952) is a British poet, critic and playwright.

1976

Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 (Picador) was published in 2002.

1979

Prizes he has won include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007).

He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and John Burnside) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (The Drowned Book).

Born in London, England, O'Brien grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

1990

He has lived since 1990 in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he teaches at the university.

1991

His writing for television includes "Cousin Coat", a poem-film in Wordworks (Tyne Tees Television, 1991); "Cantona", a poem-film in On the Line (BBC2, 1994); Strong Language, a 45-minute poem-film (Channel 4, 1997) and The Poet Who Left the Page, a profile of Simon Armitage (BBC4, 2002).

Other significant work includes a radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4 of "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

1998

O Brien's book of essays on contemporary poetry, The Deregulated Muse (Bloodaxe), was published in 1998, as was his anthology The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador).

2006

His new verse version of Dante's Inferno was published by Picador in October 2006.

O'Brien's six collections of poetry to date have all won awards.

In 2006, he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and was previously Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University.

He is a Vice-President of the Poetry Society.

He was co-founder of the literary magazine The Printer's Devil, contributes reviews to newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times and The Times Literary Supplement and is a regular broadcaster on radio.

2007

In 2007, he won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for The Drowned Book (Picador, 2007).

This was the first time a poet had been awarded the Forward and the Eliot prizes in the same year.

O'Brien was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.

2016

He was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford, for 2016–17.