The Premio Aztlán Literary Prize is a national literary award for emerging Chicana and Chicano authors, founded in 1993 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya.Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
22 November 2008, accessed 4 January 2011. The award was originally sponsored by the

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; ) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, it is the state's second oldest university, a flagship university in th ...

, but was moved in 2008 to the

National Hispanic Cultural Center The National Hispanic Cultural Center is an institution in Albuquerque, New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic culture, arts and humanities. The campus spans 20 acres and is located along the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Avenida César Chá ...

. The award is limited to short-story collections and novels (but not children's or young-adult novels) published by a professional press during the previous calendar year. Moreover, the author must be living and must not have published more than two books. The winner receives $1,000 and presents a lecture at that year's National Latino Writers Conference. Award recipients include (years refer to the year of publication; the award is given the following year): * 2013: ire'ne lara silva, ''flesh to bone'' * 2009: Gloria Zamora, ''Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico'' * 2008: Patricia Santana, ''Ghosts of El Grullo'' * 2007: Verónica Gonzalez, ''Twin Time or How Death Befell Me'' * 2006: Reyna Grande, ''Across a Hundred Mountains'' * 2005: Gene Guerin, ''Cottonwood Saints'' * 2004: Mary Helen Lagasse, ''The Fifth Sun'' * 2003-2000: no awardPremio Aztlan Literary Prize 2005 Call for Submissions
(pdf), accessed 4 January 2011 * 1999: Sergio Troncoso, ''The Last Tortilla and Other Stories'' * 1998: Ronald Ruiz, ''Giuseppe Rocco'' * 1997: Pat Mora, ''House of Houses'' * 1996: Wendell Mayo, '' Centaur of the North'' * 1995:

Norma Elia Cantú Norma Elia Cantú (born January 3, 1947) is a Chicana postmodernist writer and the Murchison Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Early life and education She was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, t ...

, ''Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera'' * 1994: Denise Chávez, ''Face of an Angel'' * 1993:

Alicia Gaspar de Alba Alicia Gaspar de Alba is an American scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet whose works include historical novels and scholarly studies on Chicana/o art, culture and sexuality. Biography Gaspar de Alba was born on July 29, 1958, in El P ...

, ''The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories''

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