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<DIV>How exciting! And it's a great list of fellowship recipients, so Chris A, and Chris B, continue to make us proud for several years running.</DIV>
<DIV>Susan</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 4/8/09, D Charles Whitney <I><Chuck.Whitney@ucr.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: D Charles Whitney <Chuck.Whitney@ucr.edu><BR>Subject: NEWS FLASH: CHRIS ABANI AWARDED 2009 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP<BR>To: CRWFacLect@ucr.edu, "CRWT Gradlist" <cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu><BR>Cc: chancellor@ucr.edu, "Dean_Cullenberg Cullenberg" <stephen.cullenberg@ucr.edu>, "Georgia_Warnke" <georgia.warnke@ucr.edu>, "Bettye Miller" <bettye.miller@ucr.edu><BR>Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 10:26 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1255361872>Chris Abani has won a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in fiction. Congratulations!!
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<DIV>Abain is the third Creative Writing faculty member to have garnered this fellowship. Prior winners were Susan Straight for fiction in 1997 and Christopher Buckley in poetry in 2007.<BR><BR></DIV>
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