Peter Balakian
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Peter Balakian is an American writer of poetry and prose whose work includes non-fiction scholarship about Armenian history.
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Peter Balakian is an American writer of poetry and prose whose work includes non-fiction scholarship about Armenian history. He is the authored the 2016 Pulitzer prize winning book of poems Ozone Journal, the memoir Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Albrand award in 1998 and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and a New York Times best seller. Both prose books were New York Times Notable Books. Since 1980 he has taught at Colgate University where he is the Donald M and Constance H Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the department of English and Director of Creative Writing.
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