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Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is an English poet and author. “I think so highly of poetry that I've dedicated my life to it. It's the most important thing to me. - Kit Wright” Kit Wright (b. 1944) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and (jointly) the Heinemann Award. After a scholarship to Oxford, he worked as a lecturer in Canada, then returned to England and a position in the Poetry Society. He is currently a full-time writer.