Robert Twigger is a British author, poet and adventurer. He has been awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the Somerset Maugham Award for Literature and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
He is the author of nine books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the bestselling Angry White Pyjamas and Red Nile: A Biography of the World’s Greatest River, among others. He has also produced several collections of poetry, including one in 2003 with Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.
His most recent work, White Mountain, is a biography of the Himalayas.