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Peter Balakian Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

NEW YORK, N.Y. (A.W.)—Author Peter Balakian won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Ozone Journal. The winners and finalists were revealed Monday at 3 p.m. during a live-streamed broadcast from Columbia University in New York. This year marked the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzers.

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15 Comments

  1. Almost no Armenian American has done one of these two things. Peter Balakian has done BOTH:
    1. Win a Pulitzer
    2. Walk through the 100-year-old mass graves of Deir Zor, for a segment on 60 Minutes, for more than 15 million Americans to see!!! Here it is:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcDvt_ki-k

    Every Armenian organization should give Balakian their highest honor…tout suite.

    1. Thank you for the link! So pleased for him to be honored and the topic to be discussed on a National TV program.

  2. Peter, I share in your joy. You are fulfilling the hopes and dreams of
    our people and shining a light in the dark places of our humanity. Bravo, Peter.

  3. Congratulations an the great achievement. It gives me more encouragement for writing about Armenian genocide when people around me are so negative. I want to bring to your personal attention my book in process about the genocide of Baku, Shadows Over Baku. Karina Khachatorian and Stephen P. Gross.

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