2011 America Award announced

THE AMERICA AWARD
FOR A LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL WRITING
Awarded by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
in loving memory of Anna Fahrni

The 2011 Award winner is:
Ko Un (Korea) 1933


Previous winners:

1994 Aimé Cesaire [Martinique] 1913–2008
1995 Harold Pinter [England] 1930–2008
1996 José Donoso [Chile] 1924-1996 (awarded prior to his death)
1997 Friederike Mayröcker [Austria] 1924
1998 Rafael Alberti [Spain] 1902-1999
1999 Jacques Roubaud [France] 1932
2000 Eudora Welty [USA] 1909-2001
2001 Inger Christensen [Denmark] 1935–2009
2002 Peter Handke [Austria] 1942
2003 Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) [Syria/Lebanon] 1930
2004 José Saramago [Portugal] 1922-2010
2005 Andrea Zanzotto [Italy] 1921
2006 Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) [France] 1910-2007
2007 Paavo Haavikko [Finland] 1931
2008 John Ashbery [USA] 1927
2009 Günter Kunert [GDR/Germany] 1929
2010 Javier Marías [Spain] 1951