Английская Википедия:Henry Shukman
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:BLP sources Henry Shukman (born 1962 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is an English poet and writer. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford. His father was the historian Harold Shukman and his brother is the BBC News reporter David Shukman.
He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, David Shukman, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom.[1]
Poetry
In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Dr No's Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. 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.[2]
Fiction
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 Award. His second novel was called The Lost City.[3] It 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.
Zen teacher
He is Spiritual Director at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center and is a Zen Teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage, with the teaching name Ryu'un.[4]
He has received dharma transmission (inka shomei and sanmotsu) from Yamada Ryoun Roshi.
One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir was published in October 2019.[5]
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