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W. S. Merwin (ohne Fotograf, ohne Jahr, bitte Urheberrechte beachten) William Stanley Merwin (* 30.September 1927 in New York City, New York; † 15. März 2019 auf Maui, Hawaii) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer, der zweimal den Pulitzer-Preis für Dichtung erhielt.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Merwin’s first collection, A Mask for Janus (Yale University Press, 1952), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The collection was praised by Auden for its technical virtuosity, and, with its focuses on classical imagery and myth, bore the influences both of Graves and the medieval poetry Merwin was translating.
In 1999, W.S. Merwin was named Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress for a jointly-held position along with poets Rita Dove and Louise Glück. He has been honored as laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival in Macedonia, receiving the international poetry award, the Golden Wreath Award.
22 de mar. de 2019 · W.S. Merwin, who was appointed poet laureate of the United States in 2010, died last Friday at age 91. When he won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005, the judges' citation read, ...
1 de jul. de 2010 · The 82-year old poet and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner has just been named U.S. Poet Laureate. Hear him read his work aloud.
27 de mar. de 2019 · W. S. Merwin, 1927–2019. (© James Baker Hall) Library of America joins poetry lovers around the world in mourning the loss of W. S. Merwin, who died on Friday in his home state of Hawaii at the age of 91. Merwin enjoyed an exceptionally prolific and varied career that began when he won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1952 and included two ...
Merwin’s first collection, A Mask for Janus, was selected by W. H. Auden as winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1952.This was merely the first of Merwin’s numerous recognitions over the next seven decades, a list that would grow to include nearly every honor possible for an American poet, including the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the Bollingen Prize, the Tanning Prize ...
