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April
22, 2003
Balaban,
NC State’s Poet-in-Residence, Wins Guggenheim
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John
Balaban, poet-in-residence and professor of English
in the Creative
Writing Program at North Carolina State University,
has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
for 2003-2004. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation awards the fellowships on the basis
of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise
for future accomplishment.
The
2003 Fellowship winners include 184 artists, scholars,
and scientists selected from more than 3,200 applicants
from around the world. Balaban is the only North
Carolinian to win the 2003 Fellowship. During
the Fellowship period, Balaban will continue to
work on his own poetry as well as begin a new
English translation of Nguyen Du's classic, “The
Tale of Kieu,” the early 19th century novel-in-verse
that is the hallmark of Vietnamese poetry.
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John
Balaban
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Balaban is the author of 12 books of
poetry and prose, including four volumes which together
have won The Academy of American Poets Lamont prize,
a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations
for the National Book Award. In addition to writing
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, he is a translator
of Vietnamese poetry, and a past president of the American
Literary Translators Association.
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Raleigh,
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