W. S. Merwin (1927–2019)
Forfatter af The Shadow of Sirius
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af W. S. Merwin
Medieval epics : Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Nibelungenlied; The Poem of the Cid. (1959) — Oversætter — 210 eksemplarer
The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished… (1992) 175 eksemplarer
Products of the Perfected Civilization: The Selected Writings of Chamfort (1969) — Redaktør — 63 eksemplarer
Sanskrit Love Poetry (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Indian Series) (1977) 11 eksemplarer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 5 eksemplarer
Japanese Figures 3 eksemplarer
Feathers From the Hill 2 eksemplarer
The Drunk in the Furnace 2 eksemplarer
Signs 2 eksemplarer
W.S. Merwin reading his Poetry 1 eksemplar
Migration 1 eksemplar
L'ESSENZIALE II Poesie 1 eksemplar
Even Though the Whole World is Burning 1 eksemplar
Más hondo antología poética 1 eksemplar
For an undersea library 1 eksemplar
A Sonnet by Dante 1 eksemplar
Robert ParkeHarrison 1 eksemplar
The real world of Manuel Cordova 1 eksemplar
To Dana For Her Birthday 1 eksemplar
West wind : supplement of American poetry 1 eksemplar
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 831 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Bidragyder — 300 eksemplarer
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Bidragyder — 151 eksemplarer
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Bidragyder — 86 eksemplarer
On Entering The Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1996) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 36 eksemplarer
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
New World Writing: Eighth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1955) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them (2021) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Merwin, William Stanley
- Fødselsdato
- 1927-09-30
- Dødsdag
- 2019-03-15
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, USA
- Bopæl
- Union City, New Jersey, USA
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA - Uddannelse
- Princeton University (BA|1948)
Wyoming Seminary
West Scranton Jurnior High School - Erhverv
- poet
translator
conservationist - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1972)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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) (vis 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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