Awards & Winners

Galway Kinnell

Date of Birth 01-February-1927
Place of Birth Providence
(Providence County, Rhode Island, United States of America, Area code 401, 02905)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Kinnell, Galway
Profession Writer, Poet, Author, Novelist
Galway Kinnell is an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".

Awards by Galway Kinnell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Galway Kinnell.

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry A New Selected Poems

1983


Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Honored for : Selected Poems
National Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : Selected Poems

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Selected Poems
National Book Award for Poetry Selected Poems

1969


Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry Body rags

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry Flower herding on Mount Monadnock