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Malika Booker (born 1970)"Malika Booker"
at Forward Arts Foundatione. is a British writer, poet and multi-disciplinary artist, who is considered "a pioneer of the present

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movement" in the UK. Her writing spans different genres of storytelling, including poetry, theatre, monologue, installation and education, and her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies. Organizations for which she has worked include Arts Council England, the

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, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Arvon, and Hampton Court Palace.

Biography

Malika Booker was born in London, UK, to Guyanese and Grenadian parents. She grew up in Guyana and returned to the UK aged 13, with her parents. Booker began writing and performing poetry while studying anthropology at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wo ...

. She founded the poetry collective Malika's Kitchen, which also included Nick Makoha. Her first collection of poetry, ''Pepper Seed'', was published by

Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books. It was founded after a paper shortage in Guyana halted production of new bo ...

in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for best first full collection published in the UK and Ireland. She was the inaugural Poet In Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Booker's poem "Nine Nights", first published in '' The Poetry Review'' in autumn 2016, was shortlisted for Best Single Poem in the 2017

Forward Prize The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The ...

. She has written for radio and for the stage, and her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including ''Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry'' (1998), ''The India International Journal'' (2005), ''Ten New Poets'' (2010), ''Out of Bounds, Black & Asian Poets'' (2012), and ''

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'' (2019).

Awards

In 2019, Booker received a

Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has be ...

for her outstanding contribution to poetry. In 2020, Booker won the

for Best Single Poem for "The Little Miracles", published in Magma.

Selected works

* 1998: ''Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry.'' Ed. Karen McCarthy (

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) * 2000: ''IC3: The Penguin Anthology of New Black Writing.'' Eds Courttia Newland and

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(Penguin) * 2004: ''KIN: Commemorative Tour Anthology'' ( Renaissance One) * 2004: ''The Way We See It, The Way It Is'' (Lynk Reach) * 2007: ''Breadfruit'' ( flipped eye publishing). * 2010: ''Ten New Poets'' (Bloodaxe) * 2012: ''Hidden Gems Volume Two: Contemporary Black British Plays''. Ed.

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(Oberon Books). * 2013: ''Pepper Seed'' (Peepal Tree Press) * 2017: ''

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3: Your Family, Your Body'' by Malika Booker,

Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 12, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Warsan Shire Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist of six candidates o ...

(Penguin). * 2019: '' New Daughters of Africa: An international anthology of writing by women of African descent''. Ed. Margaret Busby (London:

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References

External links

Official website

"Forward Arts Foundation in conversation with Malika Booker"
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