Claudine Toutoungi
Claudine Toutoungi is an award-winning playwright and poet. Her three poetry collections with Carcanet Press are Smoothie (2017), Two Tongues (2020), which won the 2021 Ledbury Poetry Prize and Emotional Support Horse (2024), which has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New Statesman, The Spectator and elsewhere. A featured poet on the European poetry platform- Versopolis, her work has been widely anthologised, been translated into Spanish and her live poetry contributions to festivals include Galway’s Cuirt Festival, Tongue Fu, Poetry East and appearances on BBC Radio 4. Claudine’s plays Bit Part and Slipping ran at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2014, following Slipping’s selection for New York’s Lark Play Centre’s international HotINK series. Her original audio dramas for BBC Radio 4 include Deliverers, The Inheritors, The Voice in my Ear and multiple dramatisations of work by writers such as Delphine de Vigan, Josephine Tey, Mira Hamermesh. A Royal Literary Fund Fellow. her recent production of Brat Farrar was a Radio Times Choice and is available on BBC Sounds. She is currently dramatising Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for BBC Radio 4.