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):

  • 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

References

  1. ^ a b Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, 22 November 2008, accessed 4 January 2011.
  2. ^ National Hispanic Cultural Center Awards Two Literary Prizes, by Michael Sedano, 30 March 2010, accessed 4 January 2011
  3. ^ "Ire'ne lara silva – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center". Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
  4. ^ UNM Today Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, 4 May 2009, accessed 4 January 2011
  5. ^ Premio Aztlan Literary Prize 2005 Call for Submissions Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine (pdf), accessed 4 January 2011


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