The Premio Aztlán Literary Prize is a national literary award for emerging Chicana and Chicano authors, founded in 1993 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya.Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, 22 November 2008, accessed 4 January 2011. The award was originally sponsored by the University of New Mexico, but was moved in 2008 to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.National Hispanic Cultural Center Awards Two Literary Prizes, by Michael Sedano, 30 March 2010, accessed 4 January 2011
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.
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 2011: Lucrecia Guerrero, Tree of Sighs 2009: Gloria Zamora, Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico 2008: Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El GrulloUNM Today , 4 May 2009, accessed 4 January 2011 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 awardPremio Aztlan Literary Prize 2005 Call for Submissions (pdf), accessed 4 January 2011 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
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