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: , 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
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2016-06-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ UNM Today Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, 4 May 2009, accessed 4 January 2011
^ 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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[Premio-1] 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] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2016-06-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[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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