Franz Wright (1953–2015)
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Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 - May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. His collection of poems entitled, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, won him visa mer a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. In 1996, Wright won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Wright died of cancer at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May 2015. Deborah Garrison, his longtime editor at Knopf, told the Los Angeles Times: "Franz wrote fearlessly about mental illness, addiction and loneliness as well as about faith and the unending beauty of his world, no matter how broken; he never wrote a line that wasn't fiercely important to him, musical, as witty as it was deadly serious." (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 831 exemplar
The New Yorker, Dec. 14, 2009 — Poem — 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Wright, Franz Paul
- Födelsedag
- 1953-03-18
- Avled
- 2015-05-14
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
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- Vienna, Austria
- Dödsort
- Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- Utbildning
- Oberlin College (BA|English)
- Yrken
- poet
- Relationer
- Wright, James (father)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- PEN/Voelcker Award (1996)
Whiting Writers' Award (1991)
The Denise Levertov Award
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