Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that David Treuer, author of the critically acclaimed Translation of Dr Apelles and Native American Fiction: A User's Manual, has been awarded a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

The 2007 Fellowship winners include 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from almost 2,800 applicants for awards totaling $7,600,000. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, which includes six members who are themselves past Fellows of the Foundation – Joel Conarroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard A. Rifkind, Charles Ryskamp, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Edward Hirsch.
What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program from all others is the wide range in interest, age, geography, and institution of those it selects as it considers applications in 78 different fields, from the natural sciences to the creative arts. The new Fellows include writers, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities. Many of these individuals hold appointments in colleges and universities with 77 institutions being represented by one or more Fellows. It is also worth noting that 51 of the new Fellows have no affiliation with academic institutions or hold only adjunct positions in them.

Since 1925, according to Mr. Hirsch, the Foundation has granted over $256 million in Fellowships to more than 16,250 individuals. The Foundation’s scores of advisory panels make recommendations to the Committee of Selection, whose members this year are Roger D. Abrahams, Hum Rosen Professor Emeritus of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania; John I. Brauman, J. G. Jackson - C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University; Lynn A. Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles; Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine; Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden and George Engelmann Professor of Botany, Washington University; and committee chair Neil J. Smelser, Director Emeritus, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.

In a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities, and sciences, the Guggenheim Fellowship program has assumed a greatly increased importance, and the Foundation is successfully raising funds to enable the appointment of a larger number of Fellows each year. Scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize winners appear on the roll of Fellows, which includes Ansel Adams, W. H. Auden, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty.