Mukahang Limbu (born 2001)
is a Nepalese British poet.
Life and career
Born in Nepal, Limbu moved to the UK aged 6. He attended
Oxford Spires Academy where he was taught by the poet
Kate Clanchy
Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher.
Education and early life
She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne). She was educated at George Wa ...
. While still at school, he won the Sunday Times/First Story National Writing Competition; was three times commended in the Foyle Competition, and won the Slambassadors Competition of 2017; and was published in the anthology ''England, Poems from a School'' (Picador). In 2019 he won the
Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry for ''The Cleaners'',
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
The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassi ...
, reading English and German. During this time he was editor in chief of
The Isis
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Magazine and published a pamphlet of poems with Out-Spoken Press: ''Mother of Flip Flops''. This was a
Poetry Book Society
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Choice 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".
In 2023 Limbu was awarded an
Eric Gregory Award
The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by United Kingdom poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets.
Past winne ...
and took up the Cambridge Harper Wood Scholarship.
Selected publications
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References
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2002 births
Living people
21st-century British poets