C. K. Williams
Poet, Author
1936 –
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Who is C. K. Williams?
C. K. Williams is an American poet, critic and translator. Williams has won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The 2012 film Tar related aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1936
Newark - Also known as
- Charles Kenneth Williams
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
English Studies
( - 1959) - Philosophy
- Bucknell University
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
- Employment
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- Newark
- Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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