Full Coverage: MacArthur Fellows 2017
The annual no-strings-attached awards of $625,000 per person — often called genius grants — are given to “extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential,” said the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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The 2017 MacArthur fellows have been revealed, and among the honorees are an experimental opera director, a freewheeling novelist exploring the moral complexities of the Vietnam War, a Nigerian painter mining her “Afropolitan” perspective and a gender-bending theater pioneer.
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“How can I be a warrior for what’s good in the world?”
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“The immigrant has always been an ambivalent figure in the United States,” writer Viet Thanh Nguyen told the Los Angeles Times last year.
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A breath away from giving up on writing, Jesmyn Ward was researching nursing programs when she received one of five Stanford Stegner fellowships in fiction in 2008.
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In the world of consumer electronics, a camera that can pack more pixels into a single image is something to boast about.
