W. H. Auden was born on February 21, 1907[1], in York[2]. He died on September 29, 1973[3], in Vienna[4]. He worked as a poet[5], screenwriter[6], literary historian[7], playwright[8], and writer[9]. He ranks in the top 0.59% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,169 views/month, #5,906 of 1,000,298).[10]
Occupation: librettist[19], university teacher[20], literary critic[21], essayist[22], composer[23], translator[24]
Employer: University of Michigan[25], The New School[26]
Educated at: Christ Church[27], University of Oxford[28], Gresham's School[29], St Edmund's School[30]
Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship[31], Bollingen Prize[32], King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry[33], Feltrinelli Prize[34], Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[35], National Book Award[36], St. Louis Literary Award[37], United Nations Peace Medal[38], Austrian State Prize for European Literature[39], Golden Wreath[40]
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Letters[41], Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts[42]
Archives at: Wichita State University[47], National Library of Wales[48], Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library[49], University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives[50], British Library[51], Harry Ransom Center[52], Princeton University Library[53], King's College Cambridge archive[54], New York Public Library Main Branch[55], Edinburgh University Library[56], Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Columbia University)[57]
W. H. Auden has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] He is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]
He has been cited as an influence by Joseph Brodsky[62], a poet[63], 1940–1996[64], of Soviet Union[65], awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature[66], specialised in lyric poetry[67]; Samuel R. Delany[68], a writer[69], b. 1942[70], of United States[71], awarded the Nebula Award for Best Novel[72], specialised in gender studies[73]; Alexander McCall Smith[74], a writer[75], b. 1948[76], of United Kingdom[77], awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire[78]; and Giorgi Kekelidze[79], a poet[80], b. 1984[81], of Soviet Union[82], awarded the Saba prize[83].
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