Paul Muldoon

Born: June 20 1951, Portadown, County Armagh.

Education: St Patrick's College, Armagh; Queen's Univeristy, Belfast.

Married: Anne-Marie Conway, 1973-1977; Jean Hanff Korelitz, 1988 - (one daughter, Dorothy Aoife; one son, Asher).

Career: 1973-86 arts producer, BBC Northern Ireland, Belfast; 1987-1990 lecturer at the University of Columbia, New York, University of California, University of Massachusetts; 1990 - Princeton University (1993 Director of Creative Writing Program); 1999 - Oxford Professor of Poetry.

Books: New Weather,1973; Mules, 1977; Why Brownlee Left, 1980; Quoof, 1983; Meeting the British, 1987; Madoc, 1990; The Annals of Chile, 1994; Hay, 1998.

Awards: T S Eliot Prize, 1994; American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Literature, 1996; Irish Times Poetry Prize, 1997.