Tag Archives: Justin Torres

April 15, 2012

Latinos and the Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes, which award the best in journalism and literary arts, will be announced on Monday. While the Nobel Prize in Literature is an international award that honors a lifetime achievement of work, the Pulitzers are an American award … Continue reading →

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January 23, 2012

In the news: Awards, Arizona, Mexico and Mario Vargas Llosa

Awards: It’s book award season! Several organizations have announced winners and nominations for the best of 2011: • The American Library Association announced today the winners of the Pura Belpé Awards, given to children’s and young adult books that honor … Continue reading →

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December 30, 2011

Best of 2011

At the end of the year, critics, bloggers and anyone else who wants to makes their own “best of” list, so I decided to make my own Latino literature favorites for 2011. Keep in mind that I started my blog … Continue reading →

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December 11, 2011

In the News

• Year in Review: Junot Díaz and Justin Torres recommended their favorite books of 2011 to New York magazine, while Héctor Tobar and Torres gave their choices for the year’s best in Salon and Julia Alvarez revealed her picks to … Continue reading →

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December 2, 2011

In the news

• New releases: Fantasy mega-bestseller Diana Gabaldon, who is of Mexican-American and English descent, released her latest book, The Scottish Prisoner, on Tuesday.  Entertainment Weekly has a great interview in which she lists her favorite and not-so-favorite books. Also new … Continue reading →

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November 6, 2011

In the news

• New releases: Maria Duenas’s The Time in Between comes out Tuesday. The suspense novel has received great reviews, including a blurb from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.  News for all the People: The Epic Story of Race and … Continue reading →

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October 17, 2011

In the news

• New on the bookshelves: Kami Garcia’s latest book, Beautiful Chaos, part of her Beautiful Creatures series written with Margaret Stohl, comes out Tuesday. Cain, a retelling of the Biblical story from the late, Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago, was … Continue reading →

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October 11, 2011

In the news

• Rigoberto González (pictured at left), who was born in California and raised in Mexico, releases his latest collection of poetry, Black Blossoms, today. The book centers on the struggles of women of color. • The Brattleboro Literary Festival, which … Continue reading →

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September 26, 2011

News from Latino authors

• Chilean Ariel Dorfman (pictured at right) and Brazilian Paolo Coelho will release new books on Tuesday. Dorfman’s book, Feeding on Dreams (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), discusses his exile from Chile after the Pinochet coup. He will make several appearances across … Continue reading →

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September 20, 2011

News from Latino authors

Here’s some news happening this week with Latino authors: • Cuban-American author Alisa Valdes (formerly Valdes-Rodriguez) released her third book in The Dirty Girls Social Club series, Lauren’s Saints of Dirty Faith, this week. She’s selling the novel by e-book … Continue reading →

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