NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 24 number 1 - Fall 2003
Friends of the Library News
By Mary Kate Keith, Friends of the Library
John Balaban Will Highlight the 2003 Fall Luncheon
John Balaban, NC State's poet-in-residence and professor of English in the
Creative Writing Program, is the keynote speaker for the Friends of the Library's
Fall Luncheon on November 12, 2003. His talk, entitled "Poetry Passports," will
focus on his poetry and his award-winning translations of Vietnamese poetry.
In April 2003 Balaban received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. During
the Fellowship year Balaban will continue to work on his poetry. He also plans
to begin a new English translation of Nyugen Du's classic The Tale of Kieu,
the early-nineteenth-century novel-in-verse that is the hallmark of Vietnamese
poetry. Balaban was also selected as the 2001-2004 Phi Kappa Phi National Artist.
The fifteenth annual North Carolina State University Libraries Faculty Award
will be presented during the Fall Luncheon. This award is given to an NC State
faculty member who has contributed consistently or notably to the operation
and development of the Libraries.
The luncheon begins at 12:00 p.m. at NC States McKimmon Center. For ticket
information, please call the Friends of the Library at (919) 515-2841.
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