Awards & Winners

Robert Pinsky

Date of Birth 20-October-1940
Place of Birth Long Branch
(Monmouth County, New Jersey)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Poet, Translator, Essayist, Literary critic, Editor
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including The Inferno of Dante Alighieri and The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz. He teaches at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate.

Awards by Robert Pinsky

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Pinsky.

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism The Sounds of Poetry

1997


Ambassador Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : The Figured Wheel

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Figured Wheel