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FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE WITH PETER BALAKIAN
California Lutheran University
Aug 13 2013
Poet and author of Black Dog of Fate
Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center
Peter Balakian will speak about his 1997 memoir, Black Dog of Fate (an
American son uncovers his Armenian past). Winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha
Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir and a best book of the year for
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Publisher's Weekly, this
moving and complex coming-of-age story follows the author's discovery
that members of his family were victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Balakian is the author of six books of poems, most recently Ziggurat
and June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000, and nonfiction works
including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's
Response (2004). His awards and civic citations include a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Spendlove
Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance, and Diplomacy, and the Emily
Clark Balch Prize for poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review.
He has appeared widely on national television and radio, and his work
has been translated into Armenian, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Dutch,
Greek, German, Hebrew, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.
He is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities,
a professor of English and director of creative writing at Colgate
University. His memoir was chosen as the common reading this year
for CLU's First-Year Experience Seminar.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/event/3073
From: Baghdasarian
California Lutheran University
Aug 13 2013
Poet and author of Black Dog of Fate
Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center
Peter Balakian will speak about his 1997 memoir, Black Dog of Fate (an
American son uncovers his Armenian past). Winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha
Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir and a best book of the year for
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Publisher's Weekly, this
moving and complex coming-of-age story follows the author's discovery
that members of his family were victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Balakian is the author of six books of poems, most recently Ziggurat
and June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000, and nonfiction works
including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's
Response (2004). His awards and civic citations include a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Spendlove
Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance, and Diplomacy, and the Emily
Clark Balch Prize for poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review.
He has appeared widely on national television and radio, and his work
has been translated into Armenian, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Dutch,
Greek, German, Hebrew, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.
He is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities,
a professor of English and director of creative writing at Colgate
University. His memoir was chosen as the common reading this year
for CLU's First-Year Experience Seminar.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/event/3073
From: Baghdasarian