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

[Tod Goldberg]

Congratulations, Chris! An excellent honor...and good company!
 
Tod

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


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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