Awards & Winners

Yusef Komunyakaa

Date of Birth 29-April-1947
Place of Birth Bogalusa
(United States of America, Louisiana, Washington Parish)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as James Willie Brown Jr, James William Brown
Profession Writer, Professor, Poet
Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Komunyakaa received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the poetry world. His subject matter ranges from the black general experience through rural Southern life before the Civil Rights time period and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War.

Awards by Yusef Komunyakaa

Check all the awards nominated and won by Yusef Komunyakaa.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry The Chameleon Couch

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Talking Dirty to the Gods

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Thieves of Paradise

1994


Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Honored for : Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Honored for : Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems