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Philip Larkin
English writer, jazz critic and librarian (1922-1985)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 9 August 1922
- Died
- 2 December 1985
- Place of birth
- Coventry
- Place of death
- Kingston upon Hull
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Philip
- Family name
- Larkin
- Said to be the same as
- Brunette Coleman
- Genre
- lyric poetry
- Field of work
- jazz
- Occupation
- poet, librarian, novelist, writer, music journalist, music critic, critic, librettist
- Position held
- Booker Prize judge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award, King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Russell Loines Award for Poetry
- archives at
- National Library of Wales, British Library
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- educated at
- St John's College, King Henry VIII School, Coventry
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Philip Larkin
- place of burial
- Cottingham
- start of work period
- 1945
- topic's main category
- Category:Philip Larkin
- writing language
- English
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