| Leslie Norris View Works by this Person | |
| Birth Place | Merthyr Tydfil, Wales |
| Career | Although not of the Mormon faith, Leslie Norris has for many years lived among Latter-day Saints and taught at Brigham Young University. His writing is occasionally about his Mormon friends and Utah landscapes, and he has had a significant impact on LDS writers who have been his students at BYU. Norris taught for twenty-four years at all levels of British education. Teaching brought him to the University of Washington and in 1980 to BYU for a writing workshop. He is now Professor of English and Poet in Residence at BYU. |
| Awards | Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize from the British Poetry Society for Ransoms. Katherine Mansfield Memorial Medal, 1979, for "Waxwings." Cholmondely Prize (British Poetry Prize) 1981 for Water Voices. Welsh Arts Council Prize for Fiction for The Girl from Cardigan: Sixteen Stories. |
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