Robert Penn Warren - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	24-April-1905
Place of Birth	Guthrie (Todd County, Kentucky, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Warren, Robert Penn
Profession	Novelist, Poet, Literary critic, Writer
Quotes	And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.

Awards by Robert Penn Warren

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Penn Warren.

1985

Robert Frost Medal
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1981

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry	Being Here: Poetry 1977 \u2013 1980

1980

Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service	(Literature)

1979

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	Honored for : Now and Then

1977

St. Louis Literary Award

1967

Bollingen Prize

1960

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	The Cave

1958

National Book Award for Poetry

Honored for : Promises: Poems, 1954-1956

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Honored for : Promises: Poems, 1954-1956

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry	Promises: Poems, 1954-1956

1957

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction	Segregation, the Inner Conflict in the South

1956

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Band of angels

1947

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	Honored for : All the King's Men

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