Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece , which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons , and Going Back to the River . In 2003, Hacker won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. In 2009, she subsequently won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of a Severed Head by Rachida Madani.
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