Pascale Petit (poet) Father" were all shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Three books were books of the year in "The Observer", "The Times Literary Supplement" and "The Independent". "What the Water Gave Me" was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. Petit has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and in 2001 she was one of ten poets commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write a poem for National Poetry Day. In 2004, she was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets. "The Zoo Father" is published in a bilingual edition in Mexico and
Ioan T. Morar Ioan T. Morar Ioan T. Morar (; born April 13, 1956) is a Romanian journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, literary and art critic, diplomat and civil society activist. He is a founding member of the satirical magazine "Academia Caţavencu" (to which he notably contributes art and culture reviews) and, since 2004, a senior editor for "Cotidianul". An amateur actor in his youth, he was also a member of the comedy troupe Divertis from the mid-1980s to 1996. Born in Şeitin, Arad County, Morar graduated as a valedictorian from the University of Timişoara's Faculty of Philology (Romanian-French section) in 1981. During the