Richard Wilbur - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	01-March-1921
Place of Birth	New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Richard Purdy Wilbur, Wilbur, Richard
Profession	Poet, Writer, Translator
Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.

Awards by Richard Wilbur

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Wilbur.

2006

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

2003

Wallace Stevens Award

1996

Robert Frost Medal

1994

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

1991

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry

1989

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Honored for : New and Collected Poems

St. Louis Literary Award

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	New and Collected Poems

1983

Drama Desk Special Award

Honored for : The Misanthrope

(For his English translation)

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Translation	Andromache

1971

Bollingen Prize

1957

National Book Award for Poetry

Honored for : Things of This World

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Honored for : Things of This World

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry	Things of This World

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