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May 2020 |
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05-06-2020 |
“The members of the class of 2020 have excelled in laboratories and lecture halls, they have amazed on concert stages and in surgical suites, and they have led in board rooms and courtrooms,” said Academy President David W. Oxtoby. “With today’s election announcement, these new members are united by a place in history and by an opportunity to shape the future through the Academy’s work to advance the public good.” Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, “widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary award after the Nobel” (New York Times). Educated at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Works include two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship and Blood in the Sun, and several novels, novellas, short stories, plays. In recent years he has been a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is Distinguished Professor of Literature at Bard College. PHOTO CAPTION: Bard College Distinguished Professor of Literature Nuruddin Farah has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PHOTO CREDIT: Jeremy Wilson # About the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” # https://amacad.org Photo: Credit: Jeremy Wilson
Meta: Subject(s): Literature Program,Human Rights,Faculty,Division of Languages and Literature,Middle Eastern Studies | |
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05-01-2020 |
https://suigeneris.bard.edu/ Photo: Sui Generis Spring 2020 cover, detail.
Meta: Subject(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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