[Cwgrad-announcements] NEWS FLASH: CHRIS ABANI AWARDED 2009 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

[rrussin at ucr.edu]

Wow-- fabulous news, Chris! You make us all proud.

Robin Russin
Associate Professor & Acting Chair
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:26:41 -0700
>From: cwgrad-announcements-bounces at lists.ucr.edu (on behalf of D Charles Whitney <Chuck.Whitney at ucr.edu>)
>Subject: [Cwgrad-announcements] NEWS FLASH: CHRIS ABANI AWARDED 2009 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP  
>To: CRWFacLect at ucr.edu, CRWT Gradlist <cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu>
>Cc: Georgia_Warnke <georgia.warnke at ucr.edu>, chancellor at ucr.edu, Dean_Cullenberg Cullenberg <stephen.cullenberg at ucr.edu>, Bettye Miller <bettye.miller at ucr.edu>
>
>   Chris Abani has won a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim
>   Foundation fellowship in fiction.
>    Congratulations!!
>   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.
>
>   http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6650266.html?desc=topstory
>   D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
>   Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS
>   U of California, Riverside CA 92521
>   951.827.6076    FAX 951.827.3619
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