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Princeton University. Harvard University.
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Eliza Griswold
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She is a former Nieman Fellow, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper"s Magazine, and the She worked with Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan, who acted as her handler. Griswold has written widely on the "war on terror". Griswold published "Wideawake Field", a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007.
She was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.
In 2011 in the New York Times Magazine, she published an investigative report, The Fracturing of Pennsylvania, which investigated the environmentally-questionable practices of fracking companies such as Range Resources. Griswold was a 2014 Ferris Professor at Princeton University and currently teaches at Columbia University.
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She was a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2008 to 2010 and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995 and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.She won the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism in 2004, for "In the Hiding Zone", about Pakistan"s Waziristan Agency. In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the The Tenth Parallel. In 2015, Griswold"s translation from the Pashto of I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan won the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Award for Poetry in Translation.
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Islam
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Guggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize; PEN Award for Poetry in Translation PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Lukas Book Prize; Rome Prize
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by the PEN American Center to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year.The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by the PEN American Center to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year.