Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
LA Times Book Prize - Poetry
Description
História e Propósito
O Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry é uma distinção de grande relevância no panorama literário americano, concedido anualmente pelo jornal Los Angeles Times. Estabelecido em 1980, o prémio visa celebrar e promover a poesia de alta qualidade, reconhecendo obras que demonstram originalidade, profundidade temática, maestria técnica e impacto cultural. A categoria de Poesia é uma das mais antigas e respeitadas dentro do conjunto de prémios literários do Los Angeles Times, que também abrange outras áreas como ficção, não-ficção, biografia, história, e literatura infantil.
Critérios de Seleção
Os critérios de seleção para o prémio são rigorosos. Um painel de juízes, composto por poetas, críticos literários e académicos, avalia as obras submetidas. A elegibilidade geralmente recai sobre livros de poesia publicados em inglês nos Estados Unidos durante o ano civil anterior à premiação. Não há restrições quanto à nacionalidade do autor, mas o foco principal recai sobre a produção literária que circula e é publicada no mercado americano. O prémio não se limita a um único estilo ou abordagem poética, valorizando a diversidade de vozes e formas, desde a poesia lírica tradicional até às experimentações mais vanguardistas.
Importância Cultural
A importância do Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry reside não apenas no prestígio que confere aos vencedores, mas também na sua capacidade de destacar autores emergentes e consagrados, impulsionando as suas carreiras e aumentando a visibilidade das suas obras. A cerimónia de entrega dos prémios, frequentemente realizada em conjunto com outras categorias, atrai a atenção da comunidade literária, da imprensa e do público em geral, servindo como um importante evento cultural na cidade de Los Angeles e para além dela.
Vencedores Notáveis e Legado
Ao longo dos anos, o prémio tem sido atribuído a alguns dos poetas mais influentes da literatura contemporânea americana, incluindo figuras como Louise Glück (vencedora do Prémio Nobel da Literatura), Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Natasha Trethewey, e Claudia Rankine, entre muitos outros. A lista de vencedores reflete um compromisso com a excelência e uma visão abrangente do que constitui a poesia de maior mérito. A premiação serve como um barómetro da saúde e vitalidade da poesia nos Estados Unidos, incentivando a produção de obras significativas e promovendo o diálogo em torno da arte poética. A sua longevidade e o calibre dos seus laureados solidificam o seu lugar como um dos pilares dos prémios literários americanos.
Winners
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Alice's education was devised by Albert's close friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar.
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor and writer
Samuel Paterson
Princess Anne
Reginald Blyth
Smart
Popular Mechanics
Richard Harris
Richard St. John Harris (October 1, 1930 - October 25, 2002) was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, and is perhaps best known for his roles as King Arthur in Camelot (1967), as Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970) and for his portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), his last film. He also played a British aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse (1970), and a gunfighter in the Clint Eastwood directed western Unforgiven (1992)
Vikrant Parsai
Vikrant belongs to Khargone City (M.P). He is an English teacher as well as an author and has written many books on English Grammar.
Katherine Tynan Hinkson
Princess Anne
Plutarch
Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
Peter Borden
Peter Kropotkin
Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 - 8 February 1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism: most of his life he advocated for a communist society free from central government. Because of his title of prince and his prominence as an anarchist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince". Some contemporaries saw him as leading a near perfect life, including Oscar Wilde, who described him as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He was also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Pliny the Younger
Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
Pliny
Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113) Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career.
Peter Alcantara
Portuguese Proverb
Portuguese (português or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal
Peter de Gaston Levis
Peter Farquharson
Sally Ride
US astronaut (1951 - )
Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer (January 27, 1805 - May 24, 1881) was an English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in English Romanticism and produced visionary pastoral paintings
Real Live Preacher
Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com
Denis Johnston
(William) Denis Johnston (June 18, 1901 - August 8, 1984) was an Irish writer. He wrote mostly plays, but also works of literary criticism, a book-length biographical essay of Jonathan Swift, a memoir and an eccentric work of philosophy. He also worked as a war correspondent, and as both a radio and TV producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. His first play, The Old Lady Says No!, helped establish the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre; his second, The Moon in the Yellow River, has been performed around the globe in numerous productions featuring such actors as Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains and Errol Flynn, although not all in the same production
Pope Shenouda III
Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925-June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was an American statesman. He was United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a United States Senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He was one of the younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and also one of his most trusted advisers, working closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also made a significant contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement
Pindar
Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963.
Heraclitus
a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Julius K. Nyerere
Polish Proverb
Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland