Prakashan; Nepali-language Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Etyka i poetyka ("Ethics and Poetics"), criticism; Paris: Instytut Literacki Ewa Lipska: Dom spokojnej młodości ("A Home for Youth"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie Zywa smierc, ("Living Death"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie Spain Matilde Camus, Corcel en el tiempo ("Steed of the time") Other Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Harald Hartung, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1: Am Rand der Zeit ("Poetry Yearbook 1: On the Edge of Time"), publisher: Claassen; anthology; Germany Haim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in Hebrew Nizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Odysseus Elytis, Greek Canada See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Charron, BlessuresUnited Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Alan Brownjohn, Andrew Motion, Charles Tomlinson Eric Gregory Award: Stuart Henson, Michael Jenkins, Alan Hollinghurst, Sean O'Brien, Peter Thabit Jones, James Lindesay, Walter Perrie, Brian Moses United States AML Award for Poetry to Marden J. Clark for "Moods: Of Late" and Edward L. Hart for "To Utah" Bollingen Prize: W.S. Merwin American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Archibald MacLeish Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Now and Then Walt Whitman Award: David Bottoms, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: May Swenson and Mark Strand Births February 4 - Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist and critic October 16 - Jonathan Edwards, Welsh, English-language poet Aifric Mac Aodha, Irish-language poet and editor Qabaniso Malewezi ('Q'), Malawian musician and English-language poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 8 - Alexandru A. Philippide (born 1900), Romanian February 9 - Allen Tate (born 1899), American poet, of emphysema June 15 - Ernst Meister (born 1911), German July 15 - Juana de Ibarbourou (born 1892), Uruguayan September 5 - John Bradburne (born 1921), English poet and missionary, killed by guerillas September 7 - I. A. Richards (born 1893), influential English literary critic and rhetorician October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop (born 1911), American poet, from an aneurism December 7 - Nicolas Born (born 1937), German poet, from cancer Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica'' 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections) See also Poetry List of poetry