Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard passes away

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Category : Obituaries Published on: April 07 2022

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Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, has passed away.
Howard was a professor emeritus at Columbia University.
He won the poetry Pulitzer in 1970 for “Untitled Subjects” and was a National Book Award finalist in 2008 for “Without Saying.”
His translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” won the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) in 1983.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard passes away