We are thrilled to announce that legendary Irish poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon will join the Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers’ Workshop 2026 in Kathmandu as a faculty member!
Author of more than thirty acclaimed collections, Paul Muldoon is one of the most celebrated poets of our time, with honours including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University, he served as the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and was the founding chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Muldoon has also been the Oxford Professor of Poetry (1999–2004), President of the Poetry Society (UK), and Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. His career bridges continents and decades, inspiring generations of readers and writers.
Born in County Armagh in 1951, he began as a BBC producer in Belfast before embarking on a thirty-five-year teaching career at Princeton. His fifteen collections of poetry include Joy in Service on Rue Tagore (FSG/Faber and Faber, 2024). His many awards include the Eric Gregory Award, Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, Irish Times Poetry Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Griffin International Poetry Prize, American Ireland Fund Literary Award, Shakespeare Prize, European Prize for Poetry, Pigott Poetry Prize, Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and Michael Marks Award.
A Fellow of both the Royal Society for Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was elected a Saoi of Aosdána in 2024, Ireland’s highest artistic honour.
We are deeply honoured to welcome Paul Muldoon to Kathmandu—his presence will be a source of inspiration for writers and readers across the Himalayas and beyond.
