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Acknowledged master of the short story, Professor
Richard Bausch
in the
Department of English
,
has been selected to receive the 2013 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College of Louisiana.

“One of the things that has so impressed this department about his stories, besides the quality of the telling, is that they embody the meaningfulness of life by taking seriously, without the imposition of an ideological bias, the predicaments in which people find themselves, even when those predicaments could invite ridicule,” said Dr. David Havird, Professor of English. “To put the matter a little differently, there is the stories’ infinite inventiveness, itself a manifestation of the author’s empathetic curiosity about the lives of others—his profound appreciation of the ambivalences that people wrestle with—and the complementary conviction that those lives signify.” 
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