Scholars Council, 2009 - present
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Distiguished Visiting Scholar, 2009
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Lecture: “Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of The Royal Commentaries of the Inca,” 2009
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Marie Arana is a writer-at-large for the Washington Post, and former editor-in-chief of Book World, the literary review section of the Washington Post. Arana has written several books.  Her most recent is Lima Nights, a novel published in January 2009. She also wrote Cellophane, a satirical novel set in the Peruvian Amazon, published in 2006, a finalist for the John Sargent First Novel Prize. In 2001, she released a memoir about her bicultural childhood, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, as well as the PEN/Memoir Award. She has written introductions for many books, among them a National Geographic book of aerial photographs of South America, Through the Eyes of the Condor, and, more recently, a book about Machu Picchu, Stone Offerings. She is currently at work on a biography of Simón Bolivar.