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Luís Alberto Urrea

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Luis Alberto Urrea (born August 20, 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist. [1]

34 relations: American Book Awards, Border Regional Library Association, California State University, Sacramento, Christopher Award, Cinco Puntos Press, Clairemont, San Diego, Colorado Book Awards, Edgar Award, Harvard University, Into the Beautiful North, Kiriyama Prize, Lannan Literary Awards, List of essayists, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Mexican Americans, Naperville, Illinois, Non-fiction, Novel, Novelist, Poetry, Publishers Weekly, Pulitzer Prize, San Diego Reader, Stacey D'Erasmo, Teresa Urrea, Terry Gross, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tijuana, University of California, San Diego, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Western States Book Award.

American Book Awards

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".

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Border Regional Library Association

The Border Regional Library Association (B.R.L.A.) promotes libraries and librarianship in the tri-border region of West Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico.

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California State University, Sacramento

California State University, Sacramento (CSUS; Sacramento State, informally Sac State), founded in 1947 as Sacramento State College, is a public comprehensive university in the city of Sacramento, the capital city of the U.S. state of California.

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Christopher Award

The Christopher Award (established 1949) is presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, motion pictures and television specials that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit".

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Cinco Puntos Press

Cinco Puntos Press, established in 1985, is an independent book publishing company located in El Paso, Texas.

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Clairemont, San Diego

Clairemont (or Clairemont Mesa) is a community within the city of San Diego, California, United States.

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Colorado Book Awards

The Colorado Book Awards are awards presented annually to Colorado authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers who exemplify the best in their category in the state during a given year.

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Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Into the Beautiful North

Into the Beautiful North is a novel written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Little, Brown.

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Kiriyama Prize

The Kiriyama Prize was an international literary award awarded to books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia.

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Lannan Literary Awards

The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of CATS and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation.

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List of essayists

This is a list of essayists—people notable for their essay-writing.

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Massachusetts Bay Community College

Massachusetts Bay Community College (MassBay) is a two-year, multi-campus community college in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans (mexicoamericanos or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent.

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Naperville, Illinois

Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and a suburb of Chicago.

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction or nonfiction is content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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San Diego Reader

The San Diego Reader is the largest alternative press paper in the county of San Diego, distributed free in stands and private businesses throughout the county, funded by advertisements.

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Stacey D'Erasmo

Stacey D'Erasmo (born 1961) is an American author and literary critic.

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Teresa Urrea

Teresa Urrea (often referred to as Teresita), also known as Santa Teresa (the "Saint of Cabora") to the Mayo (October 15, 1873 – January 11, 1906), was a Mexican mystic, folk healer, and revolutionary insurgent.

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Terry Gross

Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula, located at the center of the Tijuana and the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan areas.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States.

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (commonly referred to as CU or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, ULL, or UL) is a coeducational, public, research university in Lafayette, in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Western States Book Award

Western States Book Award was awarded annually in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translation until 2003.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luís_Alberto_Urrea

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