Patric Dickinson

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For the English officer of arms, see Patric Laurence Dickinson.

Patric Thomas Dickinson (December 26, 1914—January 28, 1994) was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright. He also worked for the BBC, from 1942 to 1948. He wrote full time from 1948.

He was born in Nasirabad, India. He studied at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. An autobiography The Good Minute was published in 1965.

He received the Cholmondeley Award in 1973.

References

Nicholas Albery, Poem for the Day (1995), p. 377

External links

Biography
Patric Dickinson at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

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Name	Dickinson, Patric
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Short description	British writer
Date of birth	1914
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Date of death	1994
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