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We’ve just learned that Ha Jin and BU alumna E.V. Slate have been named winners of the PEN/ O. Henry Prize. Their stories “The House behind a Weeping Cherry” (Ha Jin), and “Purple Bamboo Park” (E.V. Slate) both appear in the forthcoming PEN/ O. Henry Prize Anthology. Congratulations to both!
Katherine Hollander, GRS ‘06, was named first prize winner of this year’s Schmuel Traum Prize in Literary Translation, for her translations, from the German, of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler. Says Katherine,”I’m happy and humbled, since Traum himself seems to have been an extraordinary person who, like Lasker-Schüler, was a German Jew who loved European languages [...]
It seems to be Rachel DeWoskin Week here at BU Creative Writing. We’ve just learned that her poem, an AAP Contest winner from the year 2000, has been selected to be included in the newest Academy of American Poets Anthology.
More good news: I’ve just learned that Stephen Barkhimer (GRS ‘07) has won the National John Cauble Short Play Award, from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, for his play Hard Rain. Just so there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind, this is a huge deal.
In addition to being an excellent playwright, Stephen is also a working [...]
We’re happy to announce the winners of several awards:
Nikki Bazar is this year’s winner of the Florence Engel Randall Prize in Fiction.
Caroline Sterne is the recipient of the Paul T. Hurley Prize in poetry for 2009.
Shilpi Suneja is the recipient of the Saul Bellow Award for fiction for 2009.
And Renee Emerson’s poem “Brownie” was selected [...]
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