Zaffar Kunial

Zaffar Kunial is an English poet, essayist and academic. He has received a number of accolades for his work, including the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize.

Early life Kunial was born in Birmingham to an English mother and a Kashmiri father. He graduated from the London School of Economics. He later took evening classes with Michael Donaghy at City, University of London.

Career Kunial's entry "Hill Speak" came third in the 2011 National Poetry Competition.

Kunial reunited with Faber & Faber for the publication of his debut poetry collection Us in 2018. Us was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize

From 2019 to 2021, Kunial was a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow of the University of Leeds. Also in 2019, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Kunial's second collection England's Green was published in 2022. That year, Kunial won the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry.

Personal life Kunial lives in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. 2013

2014

"The Word", "Q", "The Fielder"

Costa Book Awards Poetry 2022 Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes

Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize Second Collections