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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Congratulations, Chris! An excellent honor...and good company!</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> cwgrad-announcements-bounces@lists.ucr.edu on behalf of D Charles Whitney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 4/8/2009 10:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B> CRWFacLect@ucr.edu; CRWT Gradlist<BR><B>Cc:</B> Georgia_Warnke; chancellor@ucr.edu; Dean_Cullenberg Cullenberg; Bettye Miller<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cwgrad-announcements] NEWS FLASH: CHRIS ABANI AWARDED 2009GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>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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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11px" class=Apple-style-span><B><I>D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair</I></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11px" class=Apple-style-span>Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11px" class=Apple-style-span>U of California, Riverside CA 92521</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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