Mary Oliver - Selected Awards and Honors

Selected Awards and Honors

  • 1969/70 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
  • 1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
  • 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive
  • 1992 National Book Award for Poetry for New and Selected Poems
  • 1998 Lannan Literary Award for poetry
  • 1998 Honorary Doctorate from The Art Institute of Boston
  • 2007 Honorary Doctorate Dartmouth College
  • 2008 Honorary Doctorate Tufts University

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