Poetic Obituaries: All together, he [Edwin Honig] wrote 10

books of poetry, 3 plays, 5 books of criticism and 8 translations one of the earliest of which was on Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish poet murdered by Franco's fascists in Granada. It was published in 1944. Four decades, later he was knighted by the president of Portugal for helping to introduce Fernando Pessoa to the English-speaking world and was similarly honored in 1996 by the king of Spain for his translations of Spanish poets and playwrights.

Honig, who taught at Harvard University before going to Brown, received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mishkenot Sha'Ananim in Jerusalem, the National Endowment of the Arts and the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

from Providence Journal: Poet and playwright Edwin Honig, of Providence, dies at 91

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