Premio Aztlán Literary Prize Explained
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):
- 2013: ire'ne lara silva, flesh to bone[3]
- 2009: Gloria Zamora, Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
- 2008: Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo[4]
- 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[5]
- 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, Canícula: 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
Notes and References
- http://unmcreativewriting.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/premio-aztlan-literary-prize/ Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
- http://labloga.blogspot.com/2010/03/nhcc-literary-prizes-tomas-rivera.html National Hispanic Cultural Center Awards Two Literary Prizes
- Web site: Ire'ne lara silva – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center . 2016-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160611162121/http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/irene-lara-silva/ . 2016-06-11 . dead .
- http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/003941.html UNM Today
- http://elibrary.unm.edu/development/litprize05.pdf Premio Aztlan Literary Prize 2005 Call for Submissions
