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    Colgate University, NY
    Sept 23 2005

    Balakian's 'The Burning Tigris' wins Raphael Lemkin Prize

    Friday, September 23, 2005


    Colgate professor Peter Balakian's The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
    Genocide and America's Response has been awarded the 2005 Raphael
    Lemkin Prize for best scholarly book in the preceding two years on
    the subject of genocide, mass killings, gross human rights
    violations, and the prevention of such crimes.

    The award is given by the Institute for the Study of Genocide at John
    Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center in New York
    City. The prize, which comes with a cash award, commemorates Raphael
    Lemkin, the legal scholar who pioneered the international legal
    concept of genocide.

    Helen Fein, chair of the prize committee, called The Burning Tigris
    `a book of enduring scholarly value and of important contemporary
    meaning.'

    Previous winners include Samantha Power's A Problem From Hell:
    America and the Age of Genocide (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and
    Alison Des Forges's Leave None To Tell The Story: Genocide In
    Rwanda.

    The Burning Tigris was a New York Times bestseller and a Times
    notable book of 2003. Balakian is the author of seven other books,
    including Black Dog of Fate, which won the 1998 PEN/Albrand Prize for
    memoir, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems.

    Balakian is the recipient of honors and awards including a Guggenheim
    fellowship, a National Endowment for the Art, the Anahit Literary
    Prize, and an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

    He has appeared widely on national television and radio. Translations
    of his work have been published throughout Europe. He is the Donald
    M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the humanities and professor
    of English at Colgate, where he was the first director of Colgate's
    Center For Ethics and World Societies.

    The award ceremony and talk by the author will be at 2:15 p.m.
    Friday, Nov. 11, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Contact
    Helen Fein, director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, at
    [email protected] for more information.

    http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=730&pgID=6013&n wID=4016
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