Gilgamesh

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His acclaimed translations include the bestselling Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007); Pearl (2016), winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and The Owl and the Nightingale (2021). From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.