Tobias Hill
Writer, representing the Poetry Award judges

Tobias Hill, representing the Poetry Award panel, was born in London. He has won many awards, including the Cambridge University Harper-Wood Award for Literature. In 1997 he was a Wingate Scholar, and in 1998 he was London Zoo's inaugural Poet-in-Residence. Hill also writes fiction: his first book of stories, Skin, won the Pen-Macmillan Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His first novel, Underground, a number one bestseller, won a Betty Trask Award. The second, The Love of Stones, has been published to acclaim in seven countries. Tobias Hill is a Visiting Fellow at Sussex University.

Favourite books
Disgrace by J M Coetzee; The Odyssey by Homer; One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Poems of Rumi by Rumi; History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

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