Robert Hass

American poet · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1941 · age 85

Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005.

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2018Truman Capote Award for Literary CriticismAward2014Wallace Stevens AwardAward2008Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward2007National Book AwardAwardNational Book Award for PoetryAward1996National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryAward1984National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismAward1979Guggenheim FellowshipAward1941Born1 March 1941

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