John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (28 Julai 1927 - 3 Septemba 2017) alikuwa mshairi kutoka nchi ya Marekani. Mwaka wa 1976 alipokea Tuzo ya Pulitzer ya Ushairi.

Ashbery ameandika zaidi ya diwani za mashairi zipatazo ishirini ambazo zimechapishwa na kushinda tuzo mbalimbali kubwa za American award for poetry, ikiwemo tuzo ya Pulitzer Prize aloipata mwaka 1976. Alitambulika pia kwa msukumo wake wa mashairi ya kimalumbano,

Ashbery alikuwa anatamani kuona kazi zake zikikubalika na watu wengi iwezekanavyo na si ibaki kazi yake peke yake.^[1]

• The Raymond Roussel Society Medal 2017
• National Humanities Medal 2011
• New York Writers Hall of Fame 2011
• National Book Award 2011^[2]
• America Award in Literature 2008
• Robert Creeley Award 2008^[3]
• National Book Award 2005
• Bestowed the rank of Officier de la Légion d'honneur ya nchini Ufaransa 2002.^[4]
• Robert Frost Medal 1995
• MacArthur Fellows Program 1985
• Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1984
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1984
• Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 1976
• National Book Award 1975
• National Book Critics Circle Award 1976
• Yale Younger Poets Prize alozawadiwa na W.H. Auden mwaka 1956

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