Mukahang Limbu
Mukahang Limbu (born 2001)[1] is a Nepalese British poet.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Nepal, Limbu moved to the UK aged 6. He attended Oxford Spires Academy where he was taught by the poet Kate Clanchy. While still at school, he won the Sunday Times/First Story National Writing Competition;[2][3] was three times commended in the Foyle Competition, and won the Slambassadors Competition of 2017;[4] and was published in the anthology England, Poems from a School (Picador).[5] In 2019 he won the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry for The Cleaners,[1] a sequence of poems in the voices of Nepalese women cleaners in a hotel, inspired by his mother.
Limbu attended The Queen's College, Oxford, reading English and German. During this time he was editor in chief of The Isis Magazine[6] and published a pamphlet of poems with Out-Spoken Press: Mother of Flip Flops.[7] This was a Poetry Book Society Choice[8] and was selected as a "best recent book" in the Guardian which stated "The fine poems of this promising debut offer complex gay rite-of-passage narratives and tales of immigrant experience, all the while looking nervously back towards Nepal".[9]
In 2023 Limbu was awarded an Eric Gregory Award[10] and took up the Cambridge Harper Wood Scholarship.[11]
Selected publications
[edit]- Clanchy, Kate (2018). England, Poems from a School. UK: Picador. p. 218. ISBN 978-1509886609.
- Limbu, Mukahang (2021). Mother of Flip Flops. Out-Spoken. ISBN 978-1838427283. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- Limbu, Mukahang (11 October 2023). "Where will you not go? - The Society of Authors". Society of Authors. The Author. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Prize For Poetry 2019". Out-Spoken. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Griffiths, Sian (4 December 2023). "From Nepal to Oxford, there's no place like home". Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Story, First (1 March 2015). "The Sunday Times publishes our young writers' work". First Story. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ "Mukahang Limbu – The Poetry Society: Poems". poems.poetrysociety.org.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Clanchy, Kate (2018). England, Poems from a School. UK: Picador. p. 218. ISBN 978-1509886609. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ "Mukahang Limbu – The Isis". Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Limbu, Mukahang (2021). Mother of Flip Flops. Outspoken. ISBN 978-1838427283. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Choice, PBS Winter. "Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang LimbuPBS Pamphlet Choice Winter 2022". The Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Wheatley, David (6 January 2023). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ "Eric Gregory Awards - The Society of Authors". 8 May 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
- ^ "Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award 2022-2023 | St John's College, University of Cambridge". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2023.