The poet Mark Stand died

On November 29, in New York, at the age of 80, an American poet, an essayist and translator, the Pulitzer Prize laureate, the 1990 laureate of 1990 Mark Stand, died.

According to The New York Times , cancer became the cause of death.

Mark Strand was born in 1934 in Summerside on the island of Prince Edward (Canada), Yunost spent in the USA, as well as in South and Central America. In 1957, he received a bachelor's degree at the Antioch College in Yellow-Springs (Ohio). He studied painting at the University of Yale and received a bachelor's degree in 1959. In 1960-1961, he was the laureate of the Fulbright scholarship, in the framework of this program, studying the Italian poetry of the 19th century.

In 1962, having graduated from literary creativity in a group for young writers of the University of Ayov, he received a master's degree in art. In 1965 he lectured in Brazil. Subsequently, he taught at many American universities and colleges. From 1997 to 2005 he was a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, since 2006-a professor of English and literature at Columbia University (New York).

In 1981 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Literature. In 1990, he became the US Laurer poet, in this position he was replaced by his friend Joseph Brodsky, who later wrote an essay about the work of Strand, where he and Charles Simik “Poets of Silence”. In 1999, Strand also became a laureate of the Pulitzer Prize.

Strand published not only verses, but also essays and stories, as well as translations of the verses of Dante, Raphael Alberti, Carlos Drummond de Andradde. He was the editor of several anthologies of modern poetry.