Pulitzer Prize (1967) Sylvia Plathé is well known in Hungary as one of the two most important poets of American confessional poetry in the middle of the 20th century, but Anne Sexton, who is at least as well-known and popular in her country, has been almost inaccessible to Hungarian poetry readers. Thanks to the excellent translators, Orsolya Fenyvesi, Mónika Mesterházi and Katalin Szlukovényi, this situation can now change. Live or Die is a landmark volume not only in Sexton's career, but in the entire 20th century American lyric. As Katalin Szlukovényi writes in her afterword: "Anne Sexton's book poses the most basic questions of life and death without hesitation. Instead of a definitive answer, the book, which was recognized with the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, is a classic of confessional poetry - Hungarian his translation is therefore incomplete." Anne Sexton (1928-1974) American poet, writer. He belongs to the group of confessional poets (John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath) who consciously used their works to process their traumatic experiences. His poems are personal and expressive, characterized by strong imagery and a dream-like narrative. After Sexton's second nervous breakdown, he started writing, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for his book Live or Die, and he committed suicide in 1974. He is considered one of the most important American poets.