1. Daljit Nagra was the first poet in residence at the BBC and has served as chair of the council of the Royal Society of Literature.
17 Facts About Daljit Nagra
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Daljit Nagra is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University London.
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Daljit Nagra, whose Sikh Punjabi parents came to Britain from India in the late 1950s, was born and grew up in Yiewsley, near London's Heathrow Airport.
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In 1988, Daljit Nagra went to study for a BA and MA in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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From 2024, Daljit Nagra was the host of Poetry Extra on BBC Radio 4 Extra, a show which re-presented distinguished BBC radio programs about poetry.
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Daljit Nagra's poem "Look We Have Coming to Dover", is used in the Edexcel "Poems of the Decade" A-Level qualification.
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In 2023, Daljit Nagra wrote a spoken-word piece that was performed by actor James Nesbitt at the Coronation Concert, to mark the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.
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Daljit Nagra's poems have been published in the New Yorker, Atlantic Review, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry International, The Rialto and The North.
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Daljit Nagra has been on the Board of the Poetry Book Society and the Poetry Archive.
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Daljit Nagra has judged the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award 2008, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2008, the National Poetry Competition 2009, the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize.
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Daljit Nagra has hosted the T S Eliot Poetry Readings 2009.
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Daljit Nagra was the Keats House Poet-In-Residence from July 2014 to June 2015, and he was an Eton College Wisdom Scholar in November 2014.
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Daljit Nagra has acted as the Lead Poetry Tutor at the Faber Academy and has run workshops internationally.
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Daljit Nagra is a contributor to BBC Radio, and has written articles for The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times of India.
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Daljit Nagra was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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Daljit Nagra married a fellow student soon after graduating from university and had a daughter.
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Subsequently, Daljit Nagra met and married his current wife Katherine, with whom he has two daughters.