Editor at the New York Times Sunday Book Review, founder of the National Book Critics Circle
Relatives
Grigoris Balakian (granduncle) Anna Balakian (sister) Peter Balakian (nephew)
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Nona Balakian (Armenian: Նոնա Պալագեան; September 4, 1918, in Constantinople – April 5, 1991, in New York City) was a literary critic and an editor at the New York Times Sunday Book Review.[1] She served on the Pulitzer Prize committee and was a board member of the Authors Guild and the Pen Club as well as a founder of the National Book Critics Circle, whose Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing is named for her.[2][3]
Balakian immigrated to New York as a child. She graduated from Barnard College and received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied with the literary critic Lionel Trilling, in 1943.[4] She joined the New York Times Book Review that same year and remained a staff member for 43 years, retiring in 1987.[1]
She and her sister, Anna Balakian, a literary critic and professor at New York University who died in 1997, were members of a literary circle that also included the playwright William Saroyan and the diarist Anaïs Nin.[5] In 1981 Nona Balakian won Rockefeller Grant for her work on William Saroyan.[6][7] The Balakian sisters were the grandnieces of the archbishop and Armenian genocide survivor Grigoris Balakian and the aunts of the poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian.[8]
^ abGlueck, Grace (1991-04-08). "Nona Balakian, 72, Retired Book Critic And Editor for Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
^"Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
^"About". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
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