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Nona Balakian

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Literary critic & editor, co-founder of the National Book Critics Circle (1918-1991)

United StatesWritersLived 1918 to 1991 · aged 72
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Nona Balakian was a literary critic and an editor at the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

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Nona Balakian was a literary critic and an editor at the New York Times Sunday Book Review. She served on the Pulitzer Prize committee and was a board member of the Authors Guild and the Pen Club as well as a founder of the National Book Critics Circle, whose Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing is named for her.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1918 to 1991 · aged 72
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