Robert Twigger

Robert Twigger has won many prizes and awards including the Newdigate Poetry Prize (the world's oldest poetry prize- also won by Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin) the Somerset Maugham award and the William Hill Sports book of the year award for Angry White Pyjamas- a book that has been continuously in print for 25 years in 2022. He has written fourteen books which have been translated into 20 languages including Ukrainian and Vietnamese, three poetry collections and writes/illustrates a quarterly memoir comic called This Simple Life- which you can get from roberttwigger.com. He has written and illustrated a new book about the Lake District called 36 islands. In the past he wrote about several expeditions to remote parts of the world he has taken part in. He has published one novel Dr Ragab's Universal Language.