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Rudolfo Anaya (born October 30, 1937) is a Mexican American (Chicano) author.

Biography

Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya was born in the rural village of Pastura, New Mexico, to Martin and Rafaelita Anaya as the fifth of seven children. He also had three half-siblings from his parents’ previous marriages. At a young age, his family moved to Santa Rosa, New Mexico. When he was a teenager, his family moved again, this time to Albuquerque, where Anaya graduated from high school in 1956. He attended grammar school for two years and dropped out before finishing, but he graduated from the University of New Mexico a few years later. Anaya worked as a public school teacher in Albuquerque from 1963 to 1970. During that period, he married Patricia Lawless. Afterward, he worked as the director of counseling for the University of Albuquerque for two years before accepting a position as an associate professor at the University of New Mexico.
When Anaya was a freshman in college, he began writing poetry and novels. His wife encouraged him to pursue his literary endeavors, and over a period of seven years, he completed his first and best-known novel, Bless Me, Ultima. East Coast publishing houses rejected the novel repeatedly. Finally, in 1972, a group of Chicano publishers accepted his book. Bless Me, Ultima went on to win the prestigious Premio Quinto Sol award and is now considered a classic Chicano work.

List of books and novels produced

Fiction

Bless Me, Ultima (1972), ISBN 0-89229-002-1
Heart of Aztlan (1976), ISBN 0-915808-17-X
Tortuga (1979), ISBN 0-915808-34-X
Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest (1980), ISBN 0-89013-111-2
The Silence of Llano (1982), ISBN 0-89229-009-9
Cuentos Chicanos (1984), ISBN 0-8263-0771-X
The Legend of La Llorona (1984), ISBN 0-89229-015-3
Salomon's Story(Unknown)
The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas (1985), ISBN 0-934770-45-X
Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcóatl (1987), ISBN 0-8263-1001-X
Alburquerque (1992), ISBN 0-8263-1359-0
The Sonny Baca mysteries:
- Zia Summer (1995), ISBN 0-446-51843-3
- Rio Grande Fall (1996), ISBN 0-446-51844-1
- Shaman Winter (1999), ISBN 0-446-52374-7
- Jemez Spring (2005), ISBN 0-8263-3684-1
The Anaya Reader (1995), ISBN 0-446-67077-4
Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert (1996), ISBN 0-446-52024-1
Serafina's Stories (2004), ISBN 0-8263-3569-1
The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (2006), ISBN 0-8061-3738-X

Books for children

Elegy on the Death of César Chávez (2000), illustrated by Gaspar Enriquez, ISBN 0-938317-51-2

The Farolitos of Christmas: A New Mexico Christmas Story (1987), ISBN 0-937206-05-9

Maya's Children: The Story of La Llorana (1996), illustrated by Maria Baca, ISBN 0-7868-0152-2

Farolitos for Abuelo (1998), illustrated by Edward Gonzalez, ISBN 0-7868-0237-5

My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande (1999), illustrated by Amy Córdova, ISBN 0-688-15078-0

Roadrunner's Dance (2000), illustrated by David Diaz, ISBN 0-7868-0254-5

The Santero's Miracle: A Bilingual Story (2004), illustrated by Amy Córdova, Spanish translation by Enrique Lamadrid, ISBN 0-8263-2847-4

Non-fiction

A Ceremony of Brotherhood, 1680-1980 (1981), edited with Simon J. Ortiz

Cuentos Chicanos: A Short Story Anthology (rev. ed. 1984), edited with Antonio Márquez, ISBN 0-8263-0772-8

A Chicano in China (1986), ISBN 0-8263-0888-0

Voices: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers (1987, 1988), editor, ISBN 0-8263-1040-0

Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (1989), edited with Francisco A. Lamelí, ISBN 0-929820-01-0

Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico (1989), editor, ISBN 0-938317-09-1

Flow of the River (2nd ed. 1992), ISBN 0-944725-00-7

Descansos: An Interrupted Journey (1995), with Denise Chávez and Juan Estevan Arellano, ISBN 0-929820-06-1

Chicano/a Studies: Writing into the Future (1999), edited with Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Elegy on the Death of César Chávez (2000), illustrated by Gaspar Enriquez, ISBN 0-938317-51-2

The Curse of The Chupacabra(2003)

Awards and Honors

Premio Quinto Sol literary award, for Bless Me, Ultima, 1970

NM Governor's Public Service Award, 1978, 1980

Natl Chicano Council on Higher Education fellowship, 1978-79

NEA fellowships, 1979, 1980

American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, for Tortuga, 1980

D.H.L., Univ. of Albuquerque, 1981

Corporation for Public Broadcasting script development award, for "Rosa Linda," 1982

Award for Achievement in Chicano Literature, Hispanic Caucus of Teachers of English, 1983

Kellogg Foundation fellowship, 1983-85

D.H.L., Marycrest Coll., 1984

Mexican Medal of Friendship, Mexican Consulate of Albuquerque, 1986

PEN-West Fiction Award

, 1992, for Alburquerque.

NEA National Medal of Arts Lifetime Honor, 2001 NEA National Medal of Arts webpage

People's Choice Award, 2007 New Mexico Book Awards

Notable New Mexican 2007 (http://www.albuquerquemuseum.com/pages/nnm.html)Further Information

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