George Anthony Rabasa (; born December 29, 1941) is an American writer and
author
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of four novels and a short story collection. Rabasa has received such honors as The Loft Career Initiative Grant,
[ ] The Writer's Voice Capricorn Award,
and two
Minnesota Book Awards.
Background
Rabasa was born December 29, 1941, in
Biddeford, Maine, to
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
refugees.
He was raised in
Mexico City
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.
He currently lives in the state of
Minnesota
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.
Partial bibliography
Novels
* ''The Wonder Singer'' (Unbridled Books, 2008)
* ''The Cleansing'' (The Permanent Press, 2006)
* ''Floating Kingdom'' (Coffee House Press, 1997)
Short stories
* ''Glass Houses'' (Coffee House Press, 1996).
Anthologies
* “Family Lines”, ''A Ghost at Heart's Edge'', North Atlantic Books, 1999.
* “Jimmy Pearl's Blue Oyster”, ''26 Minnesota Writers'', Nodin Press, 1995.
Journals
* “Yolanda by Day”, ''American Literary Review,'' 2003.
* “Fallen Coconuts and Dead Fish”, ''Green Hills,'' 2003.
* “Ask Señor Totol”, ''Hayden’s Ferry Review,'' 2002–2003.
* “Hay Soos Saves”, ''North Dakota Quarterly,'' 2002.
* “For the Solitary Soul”, ''South Carolina Review,'' 2001.
* “Three Incidents in the Early Life of El Perro”, ''
Atlanta Review
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The jou ...
,'' 2001.
* “The Beautiful Wife”, ''Glimmer Train Stories'', 1995.
Awards
* The Loft Literary Center Career Initiative Grant, 2008
* A BookSense Notable Book Selection, ''The Cleansing,'' 2006
* Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Fellowship, 2001
* Minnesota Book Award for Novel, ''Floating Kingdom,'' 1998
* Minnesota Book Award for Short Fiction, ''Glass Houses,'' 1997
* The Writers Voice Capricorn Award, Excellence in Fiction, 1992
References
External links
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1941 births
Living people
American people of Catalan descent
Novelists from Maine
People from Biddeford, Maine
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers