Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2015: Marilyn Hacker

5:15pm - 7:30pm / Tuesday 17th November 2015
Type: Lecture / Category: Department
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The Centre for New and International Writing presents:

Miriam Allott Writers Series

Marilyn Hacker

University of Liverpool, School of the Arts Library

Tuesday November 17, 2015 – 5.15 pm

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is an esteemed American poet, translator and critic living in Paris. She is a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets.

Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.


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