Mark Strand

Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator (1934-2014) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 80

Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004.

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2014Died29 November 20142004Wallace Stevens AwardAward1999Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward1993Bollingen PrizeAward1992Bobbitt National Prize for PoetryAward1991United States Poet LaureateAward1990United States Poet LaureateAward1987MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1983Rome PrizeAward1979Fellowship of the Academy of American PoetsAward1974Guggenheim FellowshipAward1961Fulbright ScholarshipAward1960Fulbright ScholarshipAward1934Born11 April 1934