Chang wins 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for latest novel
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Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at Iowa, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her novel, The Family Chao.
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2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
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About — Lan Samantha Chang
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa Now - The University of Iowa
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Rita Dove in conversation with Victoria Chang at Virginia Festival
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners announced for 2021
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Highlights from the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
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Cleveland Foundation announces 88th Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Paperback
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Lan Samantha Chang, Geraldine Brooks and
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Mary Helen Stefaniak - The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
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