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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:38 |
CULLOWHEE ÇƒÓ Ron Rash, the John and Dorothy Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University, has received the 2006 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction for his third novel, "The World Made Straight."
The award is presented annually by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association in recognition of works of fiction that exhibit "creative and imaginative quality, excellence of style, universality of appeal and relevance to North Carolina and her people."
Rash will receive the honor as part of the annual North Carolina Book Awards, to be presented Friday, at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh.
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