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March 6, 2013

Jeremy Scahill Wins $150,000 Windham Campbell Award for Writing 
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Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill has been named one of nine
recipients of Yale University's inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes for
writing. The $150,000 award honors "emerging and established writers for
outstanding achievement in fiction, non-fiction, and drama." The prize
was founded with an endowment by the late novelist Donald Windham.
Scahill writes for The Nation magazine and is the author of "Blackwater:
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" and the
forthcoming book "Dirty Wars."

 

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