Ελίζαμπεθ Μπίσοπ

Η Ελίζαμπεθ Μπίσοπ (Elizabeth Bishop ; 8 Φεβρουαρίου 1911 – 6 Οκτωβρίου 1979) ήταν Αμερικανίδα ποιήτρια και συγγραφέας μικρών ιστοριών. Ήταν σύμβουλος ποίησης στην Library of Congress από το 1949 έως το 1950, νικήτρια του Πούλιτζερ Ποίησης το 1956, νικήτρια του National Book Award το 1970 και η νικήτρια του Διεθνούς Βραβείου Λογοτεχνίας Neustadt το 1976. Ο Dwight Garner υποστήριξε ότι ήταν ίσως “η πιο χαρισματική ποιήτρια του 20ου αιώνα”.

 Βραβεία και τιμές 

1945: Houghton Mifflin Poetry Prize Fellowship
1947: Guggenheim Fellowship
1949: Appointed Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
1950: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
1951: Lucy Martin Donelly Fellowship (awarded by Bryn Mawr College)
1953: Shelley Memorial Award
1954: Elected to lifetime membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1956: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1960: Chapelbrook Foundation Award
1964: Academy of American Poets Fellowship
1968: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1968: Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
1969: The Order of Rio Branco (awarded by the Brazilian government)
1970: National Book Award for Poetry
1974: Harriet Monroe Poetry Award
1976: Books Abroad/Neustadt International Prize
1976: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1977: National Book Critics Circle Award
1978: Guggenheim Fellowship
2010: Elected to inaugural class of the New York Writers Hall of Fame

 Εργογραφία 
Ποιητικές συλλογές
 North & South (Houghton Mifflin, 1946)
 Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1955) —winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
 A Cold Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1956)
 Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1965)
 The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969) —winner of the National Book Award"National Book Awards – 1970". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-07. (With essay by Ross Gay from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
 Geography III (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976)
 The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1983)
 Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop ed. Alice Quinn (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)
 Poems, Prose and Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, ed. Robert Giroux (Library of America, 2008) 
 Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011)

Άλλα έργα
 The Diary of Helena Morley by Alice Brant, translated and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Bishop, (Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1957)
 The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968)
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry edited by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, (Wesleyan University Press (1972)
The Collected Prose (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984)
 One Art: Letters, selected and edited by Robert Giroux (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994)
 Exchanging Hats: Elizabeth Bishop Paintings, edited and with an Introduction by William Benton (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996)
 Poems, Prose and Letters Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, eds. (New York: Library of America, 2008)
 Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell," ed. Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008)
 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop. George Monteiro Ed. (University Press of Mississippi 1996)

 Παραπομπές 
 Σημειώσεις 

 Βιβλιογραφία 



  Nickowitz, Peter.  Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.  Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2006.
  Oliveira, Carmen L., trans Neil K. Besner,  (2002) Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares (Rutgers University Press, 2002) 
 Ostrom, Hans. "Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Fish,’" in a Reference Guide to American Literature, ed. Thomas Riggs.  Detroit: St. James Press, 1999.

 Schwartz, Lloyd and Estess, Sybil P. (1983) Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art'' University of Michigan Press 

McCabe, Susan (1994) Elizabeth Bishop:  Her Poetics of Loss Penn State Press 

 Εξωτερικοί σύνδεσμοι 



Profile at the National Book Foundation Poetry Blog 
 Profile at the Poetry Archive with poems written and audio
 Profile and poems at Poets.org
 Profile and poems at the Poetry Foundation

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