C. K. Williams (1936–2015)
Auteur van Repair: Poems
Over de Auteur
Charles Kenneth Williams was born on November 4, 1936 in Newark, New Jersey. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. His collections of poetry include Lies, The Last Deaths, Collected Poems, and Selected Later Poems. He won the National Book Critics toon meer Circle Award in 1987 for Flesh and Blood, the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Repair in 2000, and the National Book Award for The Singing in 2003. In addition to writing poetry, he translated plays by Sophocles and poems by Adam Zagajewski and Francis Ponge. His critical essays were collected in Poetry and Consciousness and In Time: Poets, Poems, and the Rest. He also wrote On Whitman and a memoir entitled Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself. He taught in Princeton University's creative writing program from 1996 until shortly before his death. He died from multiple myeloma on September 20, 2015 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Werken van C. K. Williams
Interrogation II after the painting by Leon Golub 2 exemplaren
Repair: Poems 2 exemplaren
The Poet (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 exemplaar
C. K. Williams: The Bacchae of Euripides : A New Version (Paperback); 1990 Edition (1672) 1 exemplaar
The Woman at No. 13: An edge-of-your-seat claustrophobic and tense psychological crime thriller (2021) 1 exemplaar
Flowers for the Dead 1 exemplaar
Invisible Mending: The Best of C. K. Williams 1 exemplaar
Tender (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 exemplaar
New & Selected Poems 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Williams, Charles Kenneth
- Geboortedatum
- 1936-11-04
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2015-09-20
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Hopewell, New Jersey, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Newark, New Jersey, USA (birth)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Paris, France - Opleiding
- University of Pennsylvania
Bucknell University - Beroepen
- poet
professor (college) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2003)
Princeton University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2005)
PEN/Voelcker Award (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
Pushcart Prize - Korte biografie
- Short Autobiography
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