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DJ Enright's Death

Born (Birthday) March 11, 1920

Death Date December 31, 2002

Age of Death 82 years

Cause of Death Cancer

Profession Poet

The poet DJ Enright died at the age of 82. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

A twentieth-century British author, poet, academic, and critic associated with The Movement, he is best known for The Laughing Hyena (1953), The Year of the Monkey (1956), and other volumes of poetry. He was the 1980 recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

He was born into a relatively poor Warwickshire family and attended school on a scholarship.

Enright died Dec. 31 in London, his family said. The Guardian newspaper reported that the cause was cancer.