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Nigel Jenkins (born 1949) is a British poet. He is also an editor, journalist, broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction.
Nigel Jenkins was born in Britain in 1949, and was brought up on a farm on the former Kilvrough estate in the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. He was educated at the University of Essex.
His early work can be found, with that of Tony Curtis and Duncan Bush, in Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974). Since then he has published several collections of poetry.
He won the Arts Council of Wales 1996 Book of the Year prize with his travel book Gwalia in Khasia (1995), and published a selection of his essays and articles as Footsore on the Frontier (2001).
He is co-editor of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, published by the University of Wales Press in 2008.
He is a lecturer on Swansea University's Creative and Media Writing Programme; and lives in Mumbles, Swansea.
Poetry translated into the languages of and published in France, Germany, Hungary, Holland and Russia; in 1998, the Russian journal Literatura Innostranya (Foreign Literature) published a selection of his poems, in Russian translation, in a feature on his work.
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Plot: Toronto... NIGEL'S FINGERPRINT is a simple story about the power of language, legacy and love. "Are you my real Daddy?" That's what 6-year old Nigel Jenkins asks his Father after he is called a nigger in the schoolyard. It's 1974 and Nigel's father, David, is white. His mother, Mona, is black. When David, finds his son trying to wash away the colour of his skin, he searches for the right way to explain why Nigel's colour is his gift.
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