(1951-06-13) June 13, 1951 (age 72) Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
Poet, nonfiction writer
Education
Bucknell University (BA)
New York University (MA)
Brown University (PhD)
Genre
poetry, memoir, essay, literary criticism
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
PEN/Albrand Award for Memoir
Raphael Lemkin Prize
Spendlove Prize for Social Justice
Presidential Medal, Republic of Armenia
Signature
Website
peterbalakian.com
Peter Balakian (born June 13, 1951) is an Armenian-American poet, prose writer, and scholar. He is the author of many books including the 2016 Pulitzer prize winning book of poems Ozone Journal,[1] the memoir Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Albrand award in 1998[2] and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize[3] and a New York Times best seller (October 2003). 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.[4]
^"Peter Balakian". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
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Salamishah Tillet MAT '97 (2022); and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winner PeterBalakian PhD '80 (2016) Brown began offering computer science courses through...
contributions to the field of genocide studies. Taner Akçam Gary J. Bass PeterBalakian Yehuda Bauer Michael Berenbaum Max Bergholz Donald Bloxham Christopher...
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alumni includes graduates and former students of Bucknell University. PeterBalakian, author and poet, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities...
Medicine PeterBalakian, professor of humanities at Colgate University Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy at New York University Peter Boghossian...
Ozone Journal is a 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning work by PeterBalakian. The title poem of Balakian's Ozone Journal is a sequence of 54 short sections, "each...
York City Tim Keller (1972), 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, PeterBalakian (1973), New Jersey congressman Rob Andrews (1979), CEO of Lord & Taylor...
Genocide Legacy. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-137-56163-3. PeterBalakian (2009). The Burning Tigris. HarperCollins. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-06-186017-1...
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response By PeterBalakian, p.210 Adalian, Rouben (13 May 2010). Historical Dictionary of Armenia...
on 2 November 2006. Retrieved 20 April 2006. Balakian, Grigoris. Armenian Golgotha. Trans. PeterBalakian and Aris Sevag. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009...
members. Several scholars researching the Armenian genocide, such as PeterBalakian, Taner Akçam, Richard Hovannisian and Robert Melson, however stated...
Medicine PeterBalakian, professor of humanities at Colgate University Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy at New York University Peter Boghossian...
Resistance fighter, Communist Atrpet (1860–1937) Axel Bakunts (1889–1937) PeterBalakian (born 1951), memoirist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ara Baliozian...
Dobkin, and others. Second generation Armenian American writers include PeterBalakian, Nancy Kricorian, Carol Edgarian, Michael J. Arlen, Arthur Nersesian...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh," Film Quarterly 59 (Spring 2006); and PeterBalakian, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. New...
Armenian genocide and America's awakening to international human rights by PeterBalakian. "Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003044986"...
way to expedience of political accommodation". Even so, Armenian poet PeterBalakian describes the Turkish courts-martial as "a milestone in the history...
political problem." He appeared on KPFK along with Serj Tankian and PeterBalakian on April 24, 2005, to talk about the Armenian Genocide. The Federal...
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