W. S. Merwin (1927–2019)
Auteur van The Shadow of Sirius
Over de Auteur
W. S. Merwin was born William Stanley Merwin in New York City on September 30, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1948 and did some graduate work there in Romance languages. He worked as a tutor and translator while writing poetry. In 1952, his first collection of toon meer poetry, A Mask for Janus, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He wrote numerous collections of poetry including Green with Beasts, The Moving Target, The Lice, The Compass Flower, The Rain in the Trees, The River Sound, The Moon Before Morning, and Garden Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders and in 2009 for The Shadow of Sirius, the National Book Award in 2005 for Migration: New and Selected Poems, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Vixen. He also published essays, short fiction, memoirs, and translations of Dante, Pablo Neruda, and Osip Mandelstam. Merwin's other works included Unframed Originals, The Lost Upland, The Ends of the Earth, and Summer Doorways. He also received the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Tanning Prize and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He died on March 15, 2019 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University
Werken van W. S. Merwin
Medieval epics : Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Nibelungenlied; The Poem of the Cid. (1959) — Vertaler — 210 exemplaren
The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished… (1992) 174 exemplaren
Products of the Perfected Civilization: The Selected Writings of Chamfort (1969) — Redacteur — 63 exemplaren
Sanskrit Love Poetry (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Indian Series) (1977) 11 exemplaren
Japanese Figures 3 exemplaren
The Drunk in the Furnace 2 exemplaren
Signs 2 exemplaren
Feathers From the Hill 2 exemplaren
L'ESSENZIALE II Poesie 1 exemplaar
Even Though the Whole World is Burning 1 exemplaar
Más hondo antología poética 1 exemplaar
Migration 1 exemplaar
A Sonnet by Dante 1 exemplaar
Robert ParkeHarrison 1 exemplaar
For an undersea library 1 exemplaar
West wind : supplement of American poetry 1 exemplaar
To Dana For Her Birthday 1 exemplaar
The real world of Manuel Cordova 1 exemplaar
W.S. Merwin reading his Poetry 1 exemplaar
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Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Merwin, William Stanley
- Geboortedatum
- 1927-09-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2019-03-15
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Union City, New Jersey, USA
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA - Opleiding
- Princeton University (BA|1948)
Wyoming Seminary
West Scranton Jurnior High School - Beroepen
- poet
translator
conservationist - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1972)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Bollingen Prize (1979)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1998)
Shelley Memorial Award (1973/1974)
Wallace Stevens Award (1994)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1973)
Lannan Literary Award (2004) (toon alle 17)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1957)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2010-2011)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2010)
Aiken Taylor Award (1990)
Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award (2013)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1971, 2009)
National Book Award for Poetry (2005)
Tanning Prize (1994)
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (1994)
PEN Translation Prize (1969)
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