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Feb. 22, 2007

UNM’s Thiel Wins NEA International Literature Award

Diane Thiel, associate professor, Department of English, has received one of three National Endowment for the Arts International Literature Awards. She wins in conjunction with Etruscan Press. The award, which has just been announced, is offered to provide American readers with greater access to quality foreign literary work in translation and supports translation and publication of a book. Thiel has been translating the novel “American Fugue,” by Greek poet and novelist Alexis Stamatis.

The award is co-funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, by the Greek Embassy, and by the Center for the Book in Athens and was chosen by panels from these organizations. Diane Thiel will be completing the translation with her husband, Constantine Hadjilambrinos, also a professor at UNM. “American Fugue” will be published in 2008.

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