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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to honor accomplishments in the | ||||||
| 4 | lives of citizens of the State of Illinois; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Achy Obejas, a distinguished and | ||||||
| 6 | critically-acclaimed author, journalist, and translator, has | ||||||
| 7 | won the Civic Engagement, Community Service and Community | ||||||
| 8 | Organizing Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago's | ||||||
| 9 | Gender and Women's Studies Program; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Achy Obejas, a staff writer for the Chicago | ||||||
| 11 | Tribune, won a Pulitzer Prize for a Tribune team investigation; | ||||||
| 12 | and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Throughout her career as a journalist, Achy Obejas | ||||||
| 14 | has received many awards, including the Studs Terkel Journalism | ||||||
| 15 | Prize and several Peter Lisagor journalism honors; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, As the author of Ruins, Days of Awe, Aguas & Otros | ||||||
| 17 | Cuentos, and several other books, Achy Obejas has been awarded | ||||||
| 18 | 2 Lambda Literary awards, a national Endowment for the Arts | ||||||
| 19 | fellowship in poetry, and residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and | ||||||
| 20 | the Virginia Center for the Arts; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Achy Obejas has translated Havana Noir into | ||||||
| 2 | English and Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief | ||||||
| 3 | Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao into Spanish; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Achy Obejas has traveled extensively in various | ||||||
| 5 | capacities, lecturing and reading her work in the United | ||||||
| 6 | States, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Australia and | ||||||
| 7 | serving as the Springer Writer-in-Residence at the University | ||||||
| 8 | of Chicago and the Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the | ||||||
| 9 | University of Hawaii; she currently serves as the Sor Juana | ||||||
| 10 | Writer-in-Residence at DePaul University in Chicago; | ||||||
| 11 | therefore, be it
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| 12 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 13 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 14 | congratulate Achy Obejas for winning the Civic Engagement, | ||||||
| 15 | Community Service and Community Organizing Award from the | ||||||
| 16 | University of Illinois at Chicago's Gender and Women's Studies | ||||||
| 17 | Program and wish her continued success in the future; and be it | ||||||
| 18 | further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to Achy Obejas and the University of Illinois at | ||||||
| 21 | Chicago's Gender and Women's Studies Program as a symbol of our | ||||||
| 22 | affection, gratitude, and respect.
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