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Literary Awards and Latino Author Recipients

American Book Award
 Rudolfo Anaya
Gloria Anzaldúa
 Jose Antonio Burciaga
 Ana Castillo
 Lorna Dee Cervantes
 Martin Espada
Diana Garcia
 Reyna Grande
 Tato Laviera
 Cherríe Moraga
 Leroy V. Quintana
 Abraham Rodriguez
 Luis Alberto Urrea
Alma Luz Villanueva
Tino Villanueva

Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
 Julia Alvarez for Before We Were Free
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Before Columbus American Book Award
 Rudolfo Anaya for Tortuga

Edgar Allan Poe Literary Award
 Books by Sandra Maria Esteves

Eduardo Cote Lamus National Poetry Award
 Jaime Manrique

Chicano/Latino Literary Award
 Manuel Ramos
 Elaine Romero (Playwright)

George Foster Peabody Award
Richard Rodriguez

Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature
 Julia Alvarez
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Luis J. Rodriguez

Humanitas Award for Screenwriting
 Josefina Lopez

International Latino Book Award:
Best Bilingual Picture Book (2006)
& Special Recognition 2006 Paterson Prize
(For Books for Young People)
 Rene Colato Lainez for I Am Rene, The Boy

John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
 Helena Maria Viramontes

Kulupi Press Award Winner
Melinda Palacio

Lannan Foundation Literary Award
 Sandra Cisneros

Larry Neal Writers Award for Poetry
 Naomi Ayala

Latino Book Award for Multicultural Fiction
 Lorraine M. López

 National Book Award
 Carlos Eire
Cristina Garcia
 Alberto Rios
 Gary Soto
 Luis Alberto Urrea

Obie Award
 José Rivera

Paterson Young Adult Book Award
 Luis J. Rodriguez

2007 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
 Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández

PEN American Beyond Margins Award
 Richard Blanco
Willie Perdomo

 Pen Book Award Winner:
Dagoberto Gilb

PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction
Sandra Cisneros

PEN/Faulkner
 Francisco Goldman

PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction
Junot Diaz

PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction
 Judith Ortiz Cofer

Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Award
 Julia Alvarez for How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Kathleen de Azevedo for Samba Dreamers (2007)
 Alma Luz Villanueva

Premio Aztlán Award
Gloria Zamora (2010) Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

Patricia Santana (2009) Ghosts of El Grullo

Verónica Gonzalez (2007) Twin Time or How Death Befell Me.

Reyna Grande (2006) Across a Hundred Mountains.

Gene Guerin (2005) Cottonwood Saints

Mary Helen Lagasse (2004) The Fifth Sun

Sergio Troncoso (1999) The Last Tortilla and Other Stories

Ronald Ruiz (1998) Guiseppe Rocco

Pat Mora (1997) House of Houses

Wendell Mayo (1996) Centaur of the North

Norma Cantú (1995) Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera

Denise Chávez (1994) Face of an Angel

Alicia Gaspar de Alba (1993) The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories

Premio Quinto Sol Award
 Rudolfo Anaya

Publishers Weekly "Ten Best Books of the Year"
 Victor Hernandez Cruz for Red Beans
Pulitzer Prize
 Junot Diaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008)
Oscar Hijuelos for Fiction (Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)
Achy Obejas for Journalism
Mirta Ojito for Journalism

Pushcart Prize
 Books by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Ray Gonzalez
Alberto Rios

Southwest Book Award
 Pat Mora

 Thorpe Menn Award
Gloria Vando
Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
Pat Mora for Tomas and the Library Lady

University of California Irvine's Chicano/Latino Literary Prize
 Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández

  

 


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