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Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated
in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked
in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting
Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now
Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the
University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he
was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul
Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature
for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish
Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in
Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare
Prize, and the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry. He has been described by the
Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet
born since the second World War." His main collections of poetry are New
Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980),
Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery
(1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems
1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won
the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes,
appeared in the fall of 2006.
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