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Succeeded by PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award (see above). 1987–2015 Inactive PEN/Steven Kroll Award "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers." 2012–2014 Inactive PEN/W.G. Sebald Award: To honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction. 2010–2011 Inactive PEN Emerging Writers Awards
Meindert DeJong, received 1962 Hans Christian Andersen Award, awarded Newbery Medal and National Book Award (resided in Grand Rapids, attended Calvin College) Aileen Fisher (1906–2002), author (born in Iron River) Margaret Hillert, poet and author of children's literature (born in Saginaw, taught in Royal Oak School District)
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award [2] was an award that honored writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression. [3] Established in 1987, the award was administered by PEN American Center and underwritten by PEN trustee Barbara Goldsmith.
Michigan counts Detroit Public Schools as the only school district classified as a "first class school district". Circa 2002, due to the state government giving control of the district to the municipal government, the U.S. Census Bureau counted the Detroit district as a dependent school system, though the Census Bureau stated that it was an ...
The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction is awarded by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) biennially "to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which have been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years.
NEW YORK (AP) — Claire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto Rican family's search for a missing girl, has won the ...
The district has its headquarters in the Fisher Building of the New Center area of Detroit. [7] [8] The school district has experienced extensive financial difficulties over a series of years. From 1999 to 2005, and from 2009 to the reorganization in 2016, the district was overseen by a succession of state-appointed emergency financial managers ...
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