Posted on Dec 26th, 2010 in
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Sky Train
I had the privilege of presenting the book to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in late-September in southern California....
Posted on Dec 26th, 2010 in
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The Official PEN American Center Photograph.
© Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American...
Posted on Dec 26th, 2010 in
Blog & News
I am extremely pleased and deeply honored to learn that my book has won the PEN AMERICAN CENTER’S OPEN BOOK AWARD for 2010.
From the judge’s note:
“Thank you Canyon for your work, your journey, your bravery, your compassion – for walking the women of Tibet all the way home and around the globe....
Posted on Dec 20th, 2010 in
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Giving my acceptance speech with the book cover image projected in the background. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American...
Posted on Dec 20th, 2010 in
Sky Train
This deeply resonant and absorbing narrative draws on years of groundbreaking research in a book that is at once memoir, history, and travel narrative. This timely glimpse into Tibet’s past – in the fiftieth year of exile — through the lives of four women – a visionary educator, a freedom...