page_title: List of honors received by John Ashbery
section_title: Griffin Poetry Prize
hierarchical_section_title: List of honors received by John Ashbery / Accolades for individual works / Griffin Poetry Prize
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007) by John Ashbery. Published by Ecco Press.
context_page_description: American poet John Ashbery received numerous awards, nominations, grants, fellowships, and other honors in his lifetime. He was generally regarded as the most-honored poet of his generation and one of the most-honored American writers of any era.
  He received his first award, the 92nd Street Y Discovery Prize for unpublished poets, in 1952. Four years later, W. H. Auden selected him as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, resulting in the publication of his debut poetry collection Some Trees. He rose to prominence when his 1975 collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror became the first book to win a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. To date, Ashbery remains the only writer to attain the achievement, which has been called the "Triple Crown" of American literature.
  Beyond prizes, he was a recipient of several monetary grants and fellowships that provided crucial support for his literary ambitions and travel. As a Fulbright scholar, Ashbery moved to France in 1955 to study French poetry and teach. He continued to live in the country for nearly a decade thereafter.
context_section_description: The Griffin Poetry Prize is an annual Canadian literary award established in 2000 by the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry "to serve and encourage excellence in poetry written in or translated into English anywhere in the world." A cash prize is split between winners in two categories: one Canadian and one international author.
  Ashbery won the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize for Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. The cash prize that year was C$50,000, which exchanged for about US$49,032 at the time. A jury of George Bowering, James Lasdun, and Pura López Colomé selected the shortlist and judged the winner. The other shortlisted international titles, selected from a total of 509 submissions overall, were Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems by Elaine Equi, The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by César Vallejo in a translation by Clayton Eshleman, and Selected Poems 1969–2005 by David Harsent.
  Selections from the shortlisted books, including six poems from Notes from the Air, were anthologized in The Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Anthology; see the section on anthologies above.
caption: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems received the international Griffin Poetry Prize in 2008.
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