AUTHOR OF BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMING TO CLU
Thousand Oaks Acorn
Aug 29 2013
New York TimesSunday,best-selling poet and nonfiction author Peter
Balakian will discuss his 1997 memoir, “Black Dog of Fate: An American
Son Uncovers his Armenian Past,” at 7:30 p.m. Tues., Sept. 17 in
Gilbert Arena, north side of Olsen Road near Mountclef Boulevard on
the California Lutheran University campus in Thousand Oaks.
This free public event is part of a program that requires all CLU
freshmen to read the same book before arriving on campus.
The book is set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakian was
the firstborn son of an American Armenian family. He grew up unaware
that members of his family were victims of the Armenian genocide.
The book won the 1998 PEN/ Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the
Memoir and was a best book of the year for The New York Times, Los
Angeles Times and Publisher’s Weekly.
He is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities,
professor of English and director of creative writing at Colgate
University.
He has received numerous awards and civic citations.
His work has been translated into 12 languages.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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