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Marilyn Hacker Wins Argana International Poetry Award

Monday, 30 Jan 2012

Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker, author of Essays on Departure and translator of Venus Khoury-Ghata's Alphabets of Sand, won the 2011 Argana International Poetry Award, granted by Morocco’s Bayt Achiir (House of Poetry). The award was created in 2002 as a sign of poetic friendship from Moroccan poets to one of their fellow poets around the world.

Marilyn has already received numerous honours, including the American PEN Voelcker Award, 2010 (for a mid-career poet), the American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2009) for Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (2004), the Poets' Prize 1996 for Selected Poems, and the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets (1995) for Winter Numbers. She lives in Paris. Click here to find out more about Marilyn, and order her books with a discount and free UK delivery.








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