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Mark Strand

1934 - 2014

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Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Strand is the 5,414th most popular writer (up from 5,877th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Canada (up from 524th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Canadian Writer.

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Among writers, Mark Strand ranks 5,414 out of 7,302. Before her are Eugénio de Andrade, Anton Donchev, Virgilio Piñera, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Sida Košutić, and Elmer Rice. After her are James Cooke Brown, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Mofolo, Iryna Vilde, Brigitte Reimann, and M. R. James.

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Among people born in 1934, Mark Strand ranks 420. Before her are Jacques Chessex, Pino Caruso, Buta Singh, Phil Ramone, James Franciscus, and Henry Cooper. After her are Joseph Bologna, Luis Maidana, Anne Osborn Krueger, Ramón Marsal, Engelbert Kraus, and Yvonne Rainer. Among people deceased in 2014, Mark Strand ranks 394. Before her are James Brady, Jacinto Convit, Odd Iversen, Dorothy Cheney, Jean Vallée, and Lucidio Sentimenti. After her are Nina Andrycz, Win Tin, Lucius Shepard, Georgi Slavkov, Holger Hansson, and Gennadi Gusarov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mark Strand ranks 475 out of 1,622. Before her are Jack Carson (1910), Megan Follows (1968), Hank Snow (1914), Helen Shaver (1951), Victor Jory (1902), and Frank Sullivan (1898). After her are Noel Fisher (1984), John Peters Humphrey (1905), Shyla Stylez (1982), William Cockburn (1902), Shawn Ashmore (1979), and Barbara Wagner (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Mark Strand ranks 32. Before her are Steven Erikson (1959), Justine Musk (1972), Mordecai Richler (1931), Michel Tremblay (1942), Wyndham Lewis (1882), and Duncan Regehr (1952). After her are Sven Delblanc (1931), Robertson Davies (1913), Élie Blanchard (1881), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), and George Woodcock (1912).

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