
His book was also the Book of the Year in The Times and The Guardian, and he was selected as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Dr No's Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, David Shukman, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. His father was the historian Harold Shukman and his brother is the BBC News reporter David Shukman. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford. Henry Shukman (born 1962 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is an English poet and writer. JSTOR ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. The reason given is: all of the awards need to be sourced. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
