Awards & Winners

William Carlos Williams

Date of Birth 17-September-1883
Place of Birth Rutherford
(Bergen County, New Jersey)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Williams, William Carlos, Dr. William Carlos Williams
Profession Writer, Physician, Poet, Author, Playwright, Novelist, Essayist
William Carlos Williams was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," but excelled at both.

Awards by William Carlos Williams

Check all the awards nominated and won by William Carlos Williams.

1963


Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Honored for : Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry

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National Book Award for Poetry Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

1959


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National Book Award for Poetry Paterson, Book IV

1956


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National Book Award for Poetry Journey to Love

1955


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National Book Award for Poetry The Desert Music and Other Poems

1953


Bollingen Prize

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National Book Award for Fiction The Build-Up

1952


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National Book Award for Nonfiction Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
National Book Award for Poetry Paterson","Collected Earlier Poems

1950


National Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : Paterson: Book III, Selected Poems

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National Book Award for Poetry Selected Poems","Paterson: Book III