Background
He was born in Oxford in 1962 and was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford. His father was the historian Harold Shukman.
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Henry Shukman
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His book was also the Book of the Year in The Times and The Guardian, and he was selected as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. His poems have appeared in the New Republic, The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books. In 2013, he wrote a poetry collection Archangel about Jewish tailors sent to Russia to fight in the First World War.
His second novel was called The Lost City.
lieutenant was a Guardian Book of the Year, and in America, where it was published by Knopf, it was a National Geographic Book of the Month. He has worked as a travel writer, was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
Achievements
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In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Doctor Number"s Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. As a fiction writer he won the Author’s Club First Novel Award in 2006 for his short novel Sandstorm (Jonathan Cape), and as well as winning an Arts Council England Writer’s Award, he has been a finalist for the O.Henry Prize.
