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Meet Eugene Gloria, 2013 Winner For Poetry
May 3, 2013
Eugene Gloria’s 2012 poetry collection, My Favorite Warlord, won this year’s Anisfield-Wolf prize for poetry. Born in Manila, Phillippines, Gloria uses My Favorite Warlord’s 35…
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Meet Kevin Powers, 2013 Winner For Fiction
May 1, 2013
The road home from war is a long journey to rediscover who you are. Author Kevin Powers, who signed up…
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Meet Andrew Solomon, 2013 Winner For Nonfiction
April 29, 2013
Culled from more than 40,000 pages of interview transcripts, Andrew Solomon‘s Far From The Tree takes an exhaustive look at families…
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Meet Laird Hunt, 2013 Winner For Fiction
April 26, 2013
Laird Hunt is the author of five novels and one short story collection. His latest book, Kind One, won the…
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Meet Wole Soyinka, 2013 Lifetime Achievement Winner
April 24, 2013
We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we’re recognizing Wole…
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Meet Our 2013 Winners!
April 22, 2013
The jury has spoken and five new authors will join the Anisfield-Wolf family. Our 2013 winners are: Laird Hunt, Kind One,…
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Quincy Jones Finally Inducted Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
April 19, 2013
Quincy Jones turned 80 years old this year—a number he never thought he’d live to see. “I guess if you…
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Rita Dove Arrives “Home,” Explores The Depths Of Poetry At PlayhouseSquare Reading
April 16, 2013
Few modern poets range as widely through time and geography as Rita Dove, the former U.S. poet laureate. But when…
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Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Profiled In The Cleveland Plain Dealer
April 10, 2013
Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Case Western Reserve University’s SAGES program, was profiled in the Plain Dealer’s “My Cleveland” column….
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Author Angela Johnson Mesmerizes Crowd At Multicultural Literature Conference
April 8, 2013
Gary Schmidt, the lanky author of winning children’s novels such as “The Wednesday Wars” and “Okay for Now,’ stood up…
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Malala Yousafzai To Write Memoir About Her Fight For Girls’ Education
April 3, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban last fall for being a vocal advocate for…
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Pledge To Read Every Day For The Month Of April
April 1, 2013
Did you know that fewer than half of U.S. families read to their kindergarten-age children on a daily basis? That children…
