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AUTHOR PETER BALAKIAN TO GET SPENDLOVE PRIZE
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 21, 2012 - 11:58 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - UC Merced said that Peter Balakian, an award-winning
author and leading voice of the Armenian Genocide recognition, has
been named the 2012 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove
Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.
Mercedsunstar.com reports that UC Merced will award the prize to
Balakian during an evening ceremony April 12. He'll give a public
speech the next day.
The Spendlove Prize, established through a gift from Sherrie Spendlove
in honor of her parents, lifelong Merced residents Alice and Clifford
Spendlove, honors one person each year. Previous honorees include
former President Jimmy Carter and Merced native Charles Ogletree,
a professor of law and executive director of the Charles Hamilton
Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard University.
Balakian is the author of the memoir "Black Dog of Fate," which won
the PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir and a New York Times Notable Book.
In the book, Balakian writes about learning what his family and
ancestors experienced with the Turkish government's extermination
of more than 1 million Armenians in 1915, including many of his
relatives. The massacre led to the creation of the word "genocide"
and served as a template for Nazi Germany's Holocaust.
A humanities professor at Colgate University in New Jersey, Balakian
is the recipient of many awards and prizes and civic citations,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for poetry from the Virginia
Quarterly Review. He has appeared widely on national television and
radio programs including "60 Minutes," "ABC World News Tonight,"
"Charlie Rose" and "Fresh Air."
Foreign editions of his work have appeared in a dozen languages
including Arabic, French, Dutch, Hebrew, Greek and Turkish.
The Spendlove Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Mark Aldenderfer,
dean of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and
Arts, and includes a representative from the Spendlove family,
an undergraduate student, a graduate student, a faculty member and
representatives from the UC Merced community.
The Spendlove Prize includes an $8,000 award.
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 21, 2012 - 11:58 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - UC Merced said that Peter Balakian, an award-winning
author and leading voice of the Armenian Genocide recognition, has
been named the 2012 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove
Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.
Mercedsunstar.com reports that UC Merced will award the prize to
Balakian during an evening ceremony April 12. He'll give a public
speech the next day.
The Spendlove Prize, established through a gift from Sherrie Spendlove
in honor of her parents, lifelong Merced residents Alice and Clifford
Spendlove, honors one person each year. Previous honorees include
former President Jimmy Carter and Merced native Charles Ogletree,
a professor of law and executive director of the Charles Hamilton
Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard University.
Balakian is the author of the memoir "Black Dog of Fate," which won
the PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir and a New York Times Notable Book.
In the book, Balakian writes about learning what his family and
ancestors experienced with the Turkish government's extermination
of more than 1 million Armenians in 1915, including many of his
relatives. The massacre led to the creation of the word "genocide"
and served as a template for Nazi Germany's Holocaust.
A humanities professor at Colgate University in New Jersey, Balakian
is the recipient of many awards and prizes and civic citations,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for poetry from the Virginia
Quarterly Review. He has appeared widely on national television and
radio programs including "60 Minutes," "ABC World News Tonight,"
"Charlie Rose" and "Fresh Air."
Foreign editions of his work have appeared in a dozen languages
including Arabic, French, Dutch, Hebrew, Greek and Turkish.
The Spendlove Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Mark Aldenderfer,
dean of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and
Arts, and includes a representative from the Spendlove family,
an undergraduate student, a graduate student, a faculty member and
representatives from the UC Merced community.
The Spendlove Prize includes an $8,000 award.