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The Lannan Foundation is dedicated to cultural creativity and diversity through its programs, which identify and support exceptional contemporary artists, writers and indigenous communities. W.S. Merwin poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America, with a career spanning five decades. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator. Over the years, his poetic voice has moved from the more formal and medieval to a more distinctly American voice. His book, The Carrier of Ladders, received the Pulitzer Prize.
