Nona Balakian
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New York Times Sunday Book Review, founder of the National Book Critics Circle | |
| Relatives | Grigoris Balakian (granduncle) Anna Balakian (sister) Peter Balakian (nephew) |
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Nona Balakian (
Pen Club as well as a founder of the National Book Critics Circle, whose Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing is named for her.[2][3]
Balakian immigrated to New York as a child. She graduated from Barnard College and received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied with the literary critic Lionel Trilling, in 1943.[4] She joined the New York Times Book Review that same year and remained a staff member for 43 years, retiring in 1987.[1]
She and her sister,
Rockefeller Grant for her work on William Saroyan.[6][7] The Balakian sisters were the grandnieces of the archbishop and Armenian genocide survivor Grigoris Balakian and the aunts of the poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian.[8]
Bibliography
- Nona Balakian (1948). Arveste: new writing, New York: Armenian Students' Association
- Nona Balakian (1958). The Armenian-American writer: a new accent in American fiction. New York: Armenian General Benevolent Union. ASIN B002J7S1F8
- Nona Balakian; ISBN 8775215810, 978-8775215812
- Nona Balakian (1978). Critical Encounters: Literary views and reviews, 1953-1977, ISBN 0672523418, 978-0672523410
- Nona Balakian (1991). Critical Encounters: Literary Views and Reviews. New York: Ashod Press. ISBN 0935102280, 978-0935102284
- Nona Balakian (1998). The World of William Saroyan. Lewisburg, PA: ISBN 083875368X, 9780838753682
References
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "About". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "The Critic's Demon | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ Grace Glueck (August 15, 1997). "Anna Balakian, 82, a Professor of Comparative Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- The Rockefeller Foundation. 1981.
- ^ "Editor Nona Balakian wins Rockefeller grant for Saroyan work". The Armenian Reporter. 14 (34 (June 11, 1981)): 13. 1981-06-11.
- ^ Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate (BasicBooks, 1997), family tree on two unnumbered pages (several pages before page 1)
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