Ruth Padel - Awards, Residencies, and Appointments

Awards, Residencies, and Appointments

Padel was Poet in Residence for the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts in 2002 and opened the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival with a reading of 'Darwin - A Life in Poems.' The following year at the same festival she curated and presented a series of literary events around “Writing the Family”. She has been Writer in Residence at Christ's College, Cambridge and as first Writer in Residence at Somerset House she inaugurated the Writers' Talks at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In March 2009 she read and discussed Darwin at the University of Havana, at the Poetry Society of America in Lillian Vernon House, New York and at the New York Botanical Garden. Since 2005 she has taught and lectured on conservation, nature writing and the environment and was Resident Poet in the Environment Institute, University College London, 2010–2011. She has read and lectured on nature in Mumbai, at the Bombay Natural History Society and Prithvi Theatre.

• 1992 Wingate Scholarship
• 1994 Arts Council Writers’ Award for poetry collection Fusewire
• 1996 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition
• 1996 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition
• 1998 Rembrandt Would Have Loved You Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize
• 1998 Appointed Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature
• 2000 Cholmondeley Award from Society of Authors
• 2002 Poetry Residency at Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
• 2002 Voodoo Shop Poetry Book Society Recommendation, short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award
• 2003 Research Award from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• 2004 The Soho Leopard Poetry Book Society Choice, short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize
• 2005 Tigers in Red Weather shortlisted in USA for Kiriyama Prize and in UK for Dolman Best Travel Book Award.
• 2006 Arts Council of England Individual Writer’s Bursary
• 2008 First Writer in Residence at Somerset House, London
• 2009 Leverhulme Artist in Residence Award at Christ's College, Cambridge
• 2009 Elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University
• 2009 British Council Darwin Now Award
• 2009 Darwin - A Life in Poems shortlisted for Costa Book Awards for poetry
• 2010-2011 Writer in Residence at the Environment Institute, University College London
• 2010 Chair of Forward Poetry Prize
• 2011 Inaugurated 'Poetry Workshop' on BBC Radio 4
• 2012 The Mara Crossing nominated for London Poetry Awards