Author and poet Andrei Codrescu won the 1970 Big Table Poetry award for his first poetry book, License to Carry a Gun, and in 1983 founded Exquisite Corpse, a surrealist literary journal. Since then he has won many awards and honors for his books of poetry and his novels, including the Pushcart Prize on two separate instances. He is also a commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and won the Peabody award for his film Road Scholar. Updated 2011
Andrei Codrescu
Author, poet
Born in: Romania
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