Nicolás Kanellos (born January 31, 1945, in New York City, New York) is founder and director of

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, the oldest and largest Hispanic publishing house, as well as Revista Chicana-Riqueña, the first Hispanic literary magazine which later became The Amerícas Review. He is the Brown Foundation professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Houston.

Biography

Nicolás Kanellos was born on January 31, 1945, in New York City, New York, to Puerto Rican and Greek parents. He grew up in

Jersey City Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Providencia Garcia, developed the Latin division of one of the largest Latin music publishers in the world, and was a significant influence on him. Kanellos earned a B.A. in Spanish literature in 1966 from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an M.A. in Romance languages from UT Austin in 1968 before earning his doctorate in 1974 in Austin as well. He taught Hispanic literature at Indiana University from 1971 until 1979, when he began teaching at the University of Houston and founded

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. Since its founding Arte Público Press has published over 600 books. While in Indiana he founded Revista Chicana-Riqueña with Luis Davila in 1972.

Awards

* 2016, Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica *2014, Enrique Anderson Imbert, North American Academy of the Spanish Language *1996, Denali Press Award, American Library Association *1989, American Book Award (publisher-editor) * 1988, White House Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature * 1986–1987, Ford Foundation Fellow *1979, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines *1979, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow * 1976, Eli Lilly Foundation Fellow * 1969–1970, Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow

Selected publications

* Kanellos, Nicolás (2011). Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno, University of Texas Press, * Kanellos, Nicolás (2001). Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States, Oxford University Press, * Kanellos, Nicolás (1999). Nochebuena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories, Oxford University Press,

References

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