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November
Comparative literature student
runner-up for national prize
John Loos,
student intern
217-333-1085; johnloos@uiuc.edu
11/2/04
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
A senior in comparative literature
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named a runner-up
in this year’s Norton Scholar’s Prize competition for her
paper “An Inexhaustible Surface: the Subversive Meditations of
Italo Calvino.”
Emily Baldoni of Normal will receive $1,000 as a runner-up. Her essay
was one of more than 200 entries. The Norton Scholar’s Prize is
awarded annually by W.W. Norton and Co. for an outstanding undergraduate
essay on a literary topic.
Baldoni was nominated by professor Michael Palencia-Roth after writing
the essay for his Comparative Literature 202 class.
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