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Selima Hill ble født i London i 1945. I en årrekke skrev hun bare for notatboken sin uten å ville dele det hun skrev med noen. Hun skilte skarpt mellom sin indre "skriveverden" og det som skjedde henne ute i verden. Først etter at hun var godt voksen, begynte hun å sende enkeltdikt inn til aviser og tidsskrift, og en dag fikk hun telefon fra en forlagsredaktør og tilbud om utgivelse. Men overgangen fra å betro seg til notatboken og skulle åpne seg for leseren, var smertefull og komplisert. Til sammen har Selima Hill gitt ut åtte diktsamlinger. Den foreløpige siste samlingen kom i 2002 og har tittelen Portrait of My Lover as a Horse. Hanne Bramness' norske gjendiktning er hentet fra samlingene Violet (1997) og Bunny (2001).
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Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945 in Hampstead) is a British poet. Selima Hill grew up in rural England and Wales. She read Moral Sciences at New Hall, Cambridge University (1965-7). She regularly collaborates with artists and has worked on multimedia projects with the Royal Ballet, Welsh National Opera and BBC Bristol. She is a tutor at the Poetry School in London, and has taught creative writing in hospitals and prisons. Selima Hill won first prize in the 1988 Arvon Foundation/Observer International Poetry Competition for her long poem The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, and her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her book of poetry, Bunny (2001), a series of poems about a young girl growing up in the 1950s, won the Whitbread Poetry Award. A selected poems: Gloria, was published in 2008. She was a Fellow at University of Exeter. Selima Hill lives in Lyme Regis. Her most recent book of poetry is People Who Like Meatballs (2012), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year). (from Wikipedia)
