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

[Chris Abani]

thank you all for your kind wishes. I just stepped off a plane to find  
from all your emails:)

Thank you

Chris Abani
www.chrisabani.com



On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:26 AM, D Charles Whitney <Chuck.Whitney at ucr.edu>  
wrote:

> 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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