Peter Balakian

Armenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1951 · age 75

Peter Balakian is an American writer of poetry and prose whose work includes non-fiction scholarship about Armenian history.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry2016

Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

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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United States