Awards & Winners

Robert Penn Warren

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.

1982


Nominations 1982 »

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1981


Nominations 1981 »

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

1979


Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Honored for : Now and Then

1960


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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 »

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

1957


Nominations 1957 »

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

1956


Nominations 1956 »

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National Book Award for Fiction Band of angels

1947


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