<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Congratulations to both of you!<br><br>Chris Abani <div>w<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">ww.chrisabani.com</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div> </div></div><div><br>On Jan 26, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Maurya Simon <<a href="mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu">maurya.simon@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Bravo, Juan Felipe and Laila! Hearty congrats to you
both!<br><br>
Maurya<br><br>
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At 07:56 AM 1/26/2009 -0800, cwhitney wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Juan Felipe Herrera is a finalist
for the annual poetry award from the National Book Critics Circle for his
<i>Half the World in Light</i> (U of Arizona Press, 2008), and
Laila Lalami is a finalist for the Nona Balakian Award for
Criticism.<br><br>
<a href="http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/2008_nbcc_finalists_announced/"><a href="http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/2008_nbcc_finalists_announced/">http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/2008_nbcc_finalists_announced/</a></a><br>
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