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Forrest Gander

Poet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1956 · age 70

Forrest Gander is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy...

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry2019
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Born 1956 · age 70