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Samrat Upadhyay
Tony Ardizzone
Tony Ardizzone is a past director of the Creative Writing Program and the author of seven books of fiction. His work includes the novel IN THE GARDEN OF PAPA SANTUZZU (Picador USA/St. Martin's Press, 1999), which was released in trade paperback in 2000; TAKING IT HOME: STORIES FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD (University of Illinois Press, 1996); the interconnected collection LARABI'S OX: STORIES OF MOROCCO (Milkweed Editions, 1992); the story collection THE EVENING NEWS (University of Georgia Press, 1986); and the novels HEART OF THE ORDER (Henry Holt, 1986) and IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Doubleday, 1978). His writing has received the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Virginia Prize for Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, the Lawrence Foundation Award, the Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, the Black Warrior Review Literary Award for Fiction, the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, The Cream City Review Editors' Award for Creative Nonfiction, and two fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts. He also served two terms of office on the Associated Writing Programs' Board of Directors; edited the anthologies INTRO 10, INTRO 11, and INTRO 12; and was the founding editor of AWP's Intro Awards Journals Project. In Fall 2005 Indiana University Press published his edited anthology, THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP. Ardizzone's stories are widely anthologized, with appearances in THE ITALIAN AMERICAN READER (William Morrow, 2003), DON'T TELL MAMA! THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITING (Penguin, 2002), THE BEST OF PRAIRIE SCHOONER: FICTION AND POETRY (University of Nebraska Press, 2001), IDENTITY LESSONS: CONTEMPORARY WRITING ABOUT LEARNING TO BE AMERICAN (Penguin, 1999), SMOKESTACKS & SKYSCRAPERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHICAGO WRITING (Loyola University Press, 1999), and both editions of W. W. Norton's NEW WORLDS OF LITERATURE. He is also the recipient of Indiana University's 2005 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award for distinguished teaching, scholarship and creative activity. Home Page: Tony Ardizzone |
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