Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Pulitzer Poetry

Description

História e Estabelecimento

O Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, estabelecido em 1918, é um dos prémios originais do Pulitzer Prize, administrado pela Universidade de Columbia. É concedido anualmente a um livro de poesia publicado por um autor americano no ano civil anterior.

Objetivos e Missão

O prémio visa reconhecer e celebrar a excelência na arte poética, destacando obras que demonstram mérito literário excecional, originalidade e profundidade temática. Ao longo da sua história, o prémio tem sido um indicador significativo do panorama poético americano, premiando tanto poetas estabelecidos como vozes emergentes.

Critérios de Seleção

Os critérios de seleção são rigorosos, focando-se na qualidade artística, na inovação formal e estilística, na ressonância emocional e intelectual, e na relevância cultural da obra. O júri, composto por especialistas em poesia, avalia um vasto leque de candidaturas, procurando identificar aquelas que se destacam pela sua mestria técnica, pela sua visão única e pela sua capacidade de tocar e inspirar os leitores.

Importância e Impacto

A importância do Pulitzer Prize for Poetry reside não só no prestígio que confere aos vencedores, mas também no seu papel em promover a poesia junto de um público mais alargado. Ao destacar obras de mérito excecional, o prémio ajuda a garantir que a poesia continue a ser uma forma de arte vibrante e relevante na sociedade contemporânea.

Muitos poetas que ganharam o Pulitzer Poetry viram as suas carreiras impulsionadas significativamente, com as suas obras a alcançarem maior visibilidade e a serem amplamente discutidas e estudadas.

Características Distintivas

Curiosamente, o prémio não é concedido a uma coleção de poemas, mas sim a um livro específico de poesia. Em algumas ocasiões, o prémio foi dividido entre dois poetas, embora esta prática seja rara.

Vencedores Notáveis

A lista de vencedores inclui alguns dos nomes mais influentes da poesia americana do século XX e XXI, como:

  • T.S. Eliot
  • Robert Frost
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Rita Dove
  • Louise Glück
  • entre muitos outros.

A sua longevidade e o seu impacto contínuo solidificam o seu estatuto como um dos galardões literários mais importantes dos Estados Unidos e do mundo.

Winners

2025
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia --

New and Selected Poems - A collection drawn from decades of work that mines the day-to-day modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia was the only daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia.

2024
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco --

Tripas: Poems - A collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage

Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco née Elizabeth Asquith (26 February 1897 - 7 April 1945) was an English writer, active between 1921 and 1940

2023
Princess Anne

Princess Anne --

Then the War: And Selected Poems
2022
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom --

frank: sonnets - A virtuosic collection that inventively expands the sonnet form to confront the messy contradictions of contemporary America

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.

2021
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine --

Postcolonial Love Poem - A collection of tender
2020
Prince Phillip

Prince Phillip --

The Tradition - A collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence.

Duke of Edinburgh, married to Queen Elizabeth II of England, famous for his embarrassing, yet sometimes funny quotes

2019
Prince Philip of England

Prince Philip of England --

Be With - A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss
2018
Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin --

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 - A volume of unyielding ambition and remarkable scope that mixes long dramatic poems with short elliptical lyrics

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

2017
Prince Otto

Prince Otto --

Olio - For a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and challenge contemporary notions of race and identity.
2015
Prince Charles

Prince Charles --

Digest - Clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America

the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)

2014
Primo Levi

Primo Levi --

3 Sections - A compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness

Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919-11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, essays and novels

2013
Price Cobb

Price Cobb --

Stag's Leap - A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love

Price Cobb is an American racecar driver.

2012
Pressbox Maxim

Pressbox Maxim --

Life on Mars - A collection of bold
2011
President Herbert Hoover

President Herbert Hoover --

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems - A body of work spanning 45 years
2010
Prem Rawat

Prem Rawat --

Versed - A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness

Prem Pal Singh Rawat, also known as Maharaji and as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, is a native of India who teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge.

2009
Plontius

Plontius --

The Shadow of Sirius - A collection of luminous
2008
Precious

Precious --

Failure

TA 1

2008
Predator

Predator --

Time and Materials
2007
Praveen Vertex

Praveen Vertex --

Native Guard

An Ordinary Human Being

2006
Prakash Adhikari

Prakash Adhikari --

Late Wife

nepal.light@gmail.com

2005
Pradeep T

Pradeep T --

Delights & Shadows
2004
Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep Soundararajan --

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Pradeep Soundararajan is a renowned tester from India.

2003
Peter de Jager

Peter de Jager --

Moy Sand and Gravel
2002
Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson --

Practical Gods

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 - July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Poul Anderson also authored several works of fantasy

2001
Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony

Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony --

Different Hours
2000
Portuguese Proverb

Portuguese Proverb --

Repair

Portuguese (português or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal

1999
Porterfield

Porterfield --

Blizzard of One
1998
Peter Farquharson

Peter Farquharson --

Black Zodiac
1997
Porfirio Diaz

Porfirio Diaz --

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
1996
Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics --

The Dream of the Unified Field
1995
Pope Shenouda III

Pope Shenouda III --

The Simple Truth
1994
Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar --

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)

1993
Katherine Tynan Hinkson

Katherine Tynan Hinkson --

The Wild Iris
1992
Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI --

Selected Poems

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939.

1991
Pope Julius III

Pope Julius III --

Near Changes

Italian pope 1550-1555 (1487 - 1555)

1990
Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker --

The World Doesn't End

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005) was a writer, management consultant, and self-described "social ecologist"

1989
Pindar

Pindar --

New and Collected Poems

Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)

1988
Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII --

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963.

1987
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) --

Thomas and Beulah
1986
Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II --

The Flying Change

Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Pawe?? II) born Karol J??zef Wojty??a (help??info) [??ka-?l ??juz??f v??i-?t??wa]; (18 May 1920 - 2 April 2005) reigned as Pope and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, almost 27 years later. His was the third-longest pontificate after Pius IX's 32-year reign and St. Peter's 34+ years. He was the only Polish pope and the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI (Dutch) in the 1520s

1985
Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I --

Yin

Pope John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, was the head of the Catholic Church from his election to the papacy on 26 August to his sudden death 33 days later on 28 September 1978.

1984
Pope Gregory The Great

Pope Gregory The Great --

American Primitive
1983
Pooja

Pooja --

Selected Poems

Pooja is the daughter of Raveena Tandon.

1982
Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova --

The Collected Poems

Russian ballerina (1882-1931)

1981
Polybius

Polybius --

The Morning of the Poem

Polybius (ca. 203-120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories covering in detail the period of 220-146 BC. He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in the government, which was later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and the drafting of the United States Constitution

1980
Polo Hofer

Polo Hofer --

Selected Poems

Polo Hofer is a Swiss rock singer whose popularity spanned several decades, beginning in the 1970s and carrying on well into the next century.

1979
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd --

Now and Then

Pink Floyd are a British rock band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music

1978
Polly Whitney

Polly Whitney --

Collected Poems
1977
Polish Proverb

Polish Proverb --

Divine Comedies

Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland

1976
Anna Jameson

Anna Jameson --

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
1975
Po Bronson

Po Bronson --

Turtle Island

Po Bronson (b. 1964) is an American journalist and author who lives in San Francisco, California

1974
Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino IT

The Dolphin

Pietro Aretino (April 20, 1492 - October 21, 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography

1973
Plutarch

Plutarch --

Up Country

Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)

1972
Plotinus

Plotinus --

Collected Poems

Roman philosopher (born in Egypt) who was the leading representative of Neoplatonism (205-270)

1971
Plontius

Plontius --

The Carrier of Ladders
1970
Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger --

Untitled Subjects

Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)

1969
Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder --

Of Being Numerous

Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

1968
Pliny

Pliny --

The Hard Hours

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)

1967
Ann Douglas

Ann Douglas --

Live or Die

Ann Douglas is an actress.

1966
Plautus

Plautus --

Selected Poems

comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC) a genus of Alcidae

1965
Joseph Fischer

Joseph Fischer --

77 Dream Songs

Joseph Fischer was a German clergyman and cartographer.

1964
Plato

Plato --

At The End Of The Open Road

ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)

1963
Anne Brown

Anne Brown --

Pictures from Brueghel

Anne Wiggins Brown (born Annie Wiggins Brown August 9, 1912 - died March 13, 2009) was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935

1962
PJ Uppal

PJ Uppal --

Poems

Doctor of Medicine

1961
Pittacus

Pittacus --

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades

Pittacus (c. 640-568 BC) was the son of Hyrradius and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. He was a native of Mytilene and the Mytilenaean general who, with his army, was victorious in the battle against the Athenians and their commander Phrynon. In consequence of this victory the Mytilenaeans held Pittacus in the greatest honour and presented the supreme power into his hands. After ten years of reign he resigned his position and the city and constitution were brought into good order

1960
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan --

Heart's Needle

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, (19 June 1916 - 17 June 2004) was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International. Pir Vilayat-s mother, Ora Ray Baker, was a cousin of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science movement

1959
Pioneer Motto

Pioneer Motto --

Selected Poems 1928-1958
1958
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd --

Promises: Poems 1954-1956

Pink Floyd are a British rock band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music

1957
Pindar

Pindar --

Things of This World

Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)

1956
Claude Monet

Claude Monet --

Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring
1955
Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen --

Collected Poems

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is a liberal American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter with The New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times

1954
Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet --

The Waking

poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)

1953
Barbara Adams

Barbara Adams --

Collected Poems 1917-1952

Barbara Adams appeared in documentary film series Trekkies.

1952
Pinarius

Pinarius --

Collected Poems
1951
Amy Grant

Amy Grant --

Complete Poems

Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960 in Augusta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her Contemporary Christian music and pop music, and a New York Times Bestselling author, TV personality, and occasional actress

1950
Pilpay

Pilpay --

Annie Allen
1949
PIEYES

PIEYES --

Terror and Decorum

brusseleir that lives now in flemish brabant (Belgium)

1947
Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino IT

Lord Weary's Castle

Pietro Aretino (April 20, 1492 - October 21, 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography

1945
Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian --

V-Letter and Other Poems

Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944)

1944
Pierre Auguste Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir --

Western Star
1943
F. E. Smedley

F. E. Smedley --

A Witness Tree
1942
Piet Hein

Piet Hein --

The Dust Which Is God

Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".

1941
Pierre Trudeau

Pierre Trudeau --

Sunderland Capture

Canadian politician (1919 - 2000)

1940
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin --

Collected Poems

French paleontologist and philosopher (1881-1955)

1939
Pierre Gilliard

Pierre Gilliard --

Selected Poems

Pierre Gilliard was a Swiss academic and author, best known as the French language tutor to the five children of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia from 1905 to 1918.

1938
Pierre Gallois

Pierre Gallois --

Cold Morning Sky
1937
F. E. Smedley

F. E. Smedley --

A Further Range
1936
Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Pierre Elliott Trudeau --

Strange Holiness

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC (usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau) (18 October 1919 - 28 September 2000), was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984. Trudeau was the first Canadian Prime Minister born in the 20th century

1935
Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille FR

Bright Ambush

French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)

1934
Pierre Charron

Pierre Charron FR

Collected Verse

Pierre Charron (1541 - November 16, 1603) was a French philosopher

1933
Barbara Adams

Barbara Adams --

Conquistador

Barbara Adams appeared in documentary film series Trekkies.

1932
Pierre Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais --

The Flowering Stone

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 - May 18, 1799) was a watch-maker, inventor, musician, politician, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms-dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American)

1931
F. E. Smedley

F. E. Smedley --

Collected Poems
1930
Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle --

Selected Poems

Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647  - 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer

1929
Pierre Auguste Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir --

John Browns Body
1928
Pierce Harris

Pierce Harris --

Tristram
1927
Pierre Abelard

Pierre Abelard --

Fiddler's Farewell

Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician.

1926
Piero Milani

Piero Milani --

What's O'Clock
1925
Pierce Harris

Pierce Harris --

The Man Who Died Twice
1924
F. E. Smedley

F. E. Smedley --

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
1923
Piero Ferrucci

Piero Ferrucci --

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry

Piero Ferrucci is a psychotherapist and a philosopher.

1922
Pierce Harris

Pierce Harris --

Collected Poems
1919
Amy Grant

Amy Grant --

Corn Huskers

Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960 in Augusta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her Contemporary Christian music and pop music, and a New York Times Bestselling author, TV personality, and occasional actress

1919
Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer --

Old Road to Paradise

Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent

1918
Pia Melody

Pia Melody --

Love Songs