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Guy Davenport

Novelist, short story writer, poet, illustrator, translator, teacher (1927-2005) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 77

Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.

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2005Died4 January 20051996Harold Morton Landon Translation AwardAwardPEN Award for Poetry in TranslationAward1948Rhodes ScholarshipAward1927Born23 November 1927

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Awards

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation1996
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award1996
Rhodes Scholarship1948
MacArthur Fellows Program
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2005 · aged 77