Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
The Premio Aztlán Literary Prize is a national literary award for emerging Chicana and Chicano authors, founded in 1993 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya.[1] The award was originally sponsored by the University of New Mexico, but was moved in 2008 to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.[2]
The award is limited to short-story collections and novels (but not children's or young-adult novels) published by a professional press during the previous calendar year. Moreover, the author must be living and must not have published more than two books. The winner receives $1,000 and presents a lecture at that year's National Latino Writers Conference.[1]
Award recipients include (years refer to the year of publication; the award is given the following year):
- 2009: Gloria Zamora, Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
- 2008: Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo[3]
- 2007: Verónica Gonzalez, Twin Time or How Death Befell Me
- 2006: Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains
- 2005: Gene Guerin, Cottonwood Saints
- 2004: Mary Helen Lagasse, The Fifth Sun
- 2003-2000: no award[4]
- 1999: Sergio Troncoso, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories
- 1998: Ronald Ruiz, Giuseppe Rocco
- 1997: Pat Mora, House of Houses
- 1996: Wendell Mayo, Centaur of the North
- 1995: Norma Elia Cantú, Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
- 1994: Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel
- 1993: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories
References
- ^ a b Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, 22 November 2008, accessed 4 January 2011.]
- ^ National Hispanic Cultural Center Awards Two Literary Prizes, by Michael Sedano, 30 March 2010, accessed 4 January 2011
- ^ UNM Today, 4 May 2009, accessed 4 January 2011
- ^ Premio Aztlan Literary Prize 2005 Call for Submissions (pdf), accessed 4 January 2011
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