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Edition 15 (2003) Winner
A. F. Moritz
エー・エフ・モリッツ
A. F. Moritz
Aliases:
Albert Frank Moritz
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1947-04-15 （Niles, Ohio, US）
- Nationality
- Canada, United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Career
- Occupations
- poet, teacher, scholar, copywriter, editor, publisher, professor
- Active Years
- 1975-2024
- Affiliations
- Victoria College, University of Toronto
- Nominations
- Governor General's Award for English-language poetry nominee 2000 for Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Governor General's Award for English-language poetry nominee 2008 for The Sentinel, Governor General's Award for English-language poetry nominee 2012 for The New Measures
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | — | Literature | Ph.D. | — | United States |
Marquette University
Literature
Degree:
Ph.D.
Year of Graduation:
1975
Country:
United States
Dissertation on Tennyson
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2005 | ReLit Award | Night Street Repairs | 詩集 | — | 受賞 |
| 2009 | Griffin Poetry Prize | The Sentinel | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2013 | Raymond Souster Award | The New Measures | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2019 | Poet Laureate of Toronto | — | — | City of Toronto | 受賞 |
Guggenheim Fellowship
1990
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
ReLit Award
2005
Work:
Night Street Repairs
Category:
詩集
Result:
受賞
Griffin Poetry Prize
2009
Work:
The Sentinel
Result:
受賞
Raymond Souster Award
2013
Work:
The New Measures
Result:
受賞
Poet Laureate of Toronto
2019
Organization:
City of Toronto
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
ReLit Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (2005) Winner
Griffin Poetry Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2009) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Sentinel
2008 PoetryPoetry collection. Winner of Griffin Poetry Prize.
Night Street Repairs
2004 PoetryPoetry collection. Winner of ReLit Award.
The New Measures
2012 PoetryPoetry collection. Winner of Raymond Souster Award.
Bibliography
- Here (1975)
- Signs and Certainties (1979)
- Black Orchid (1981)
- Between the Root and the Flower (1982)
- The Visitation (1983)
- The Tradition (1986)
- Song of Fear (1992)
- The Ruined Cottage (1993)
- Ciudad interior (1993)
- Phantoms in the Ark (1994)
- Mahoning (1994)
- A Houseboat on the Styx (1998)
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1999)
- Night Street Repairs (2004)
- The Sentinel (2008)
- The New Measures (2012)
- Sequence (2015)
- The Sparrow (2018)
- As Far As You Know (2020)
Translations by Author
- Children of the Quadrilateral: Selected Poems of Benjamin Péret
- Testament of Man: Selected Poems of Gilberto Meza
- Ludwig Zeller in the Country of the Antipodes: Poems 1964–1979
- The Marble Head and Other Poems, by Ludwig Zeller
- The Ghost's Tattoos, by Ludwig Zeller
- Body of Insomnia and Other Poems, by Ludwig Zeller
- Rio Loa: Station of Dreams, by Ludwig Zeller
Legacy
American-born Canadian poet, teacher, and scholar. Served as Poet Laureate of Toronto and won numerous awards for his poetry collections.
Archives
- The Albert Frank (A.F.) Moritz fonds at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto
In Popular Culture
- In 2019, Redpath Sugar withdrew invitation for him to recite a poem addressing the sugar industry's slave labor history at their 60th anniversary.
Trivia
- Married to Theresa Moritz, with whom he has collaborated on several books.