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| VillageVoice |
Posted
on 26-Oct-01 08:46 AM
Samrat Upadhyay was last night named Giles Whiting Foundation awardee. The award given to young writers of exceptional talent and promise carries a purse of $35,000.
The red-hot novelist Akhil Sharma is one of the 10 recepients of the 2001 Whiting.
The recepients were announced at a ceremony in New York yesteday. Samrat was introduced as "born and raised in Nepal...he draws on his early experience in his debut collection of stories, Arresting God in Kathmandu...." A long applause followed. It was great to see Samrat getting acknowledged from who's who in American literature.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 26-Oct-01 12:14 PM
Congrats to Samrat on his this achievement!!
It is really great to hear about this.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| ashu |
Posted
on 26-Oct-01 12:35 PM
Thanks to former GBNC president who is now the president of GAA in Kathmandu, Mahendra Honda Shakya's initiatives, the alumni association of St. Xavier's
School (aka GAA) -- assuming details get worked out soon -- expects to host
a reception in honor of Samrat Upadhyay (Class of 1980) in Kathmandu later
this year.
Along with many of his classates, friends and supporters in Kathmandu,
Samrat's old English teachers -- Fr. Donnelly and Fr. Watrin -- are mighty
proud of his achievements.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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