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

Table of Contents

  1. 37 relations: American Archive of Public Broadcasting, American Book Awards, Arizona Daily Star, Border Regional Library Association, California State University, Sacramento, Christopher Award, Cinco Puntos Press, Clairemont, San Diego, Colorado Book Awards, Edgar Awards, Essay, Harvard University, Into the Beautiful North, Kiriyama Prize, Lannan Literary Awards, 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, Tucson Festival of Books, University of California, San Diego, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Western States Book Award.

  2. University of Louisiana at Lafayette faculty
  3. Writers from Tijuana

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH Educational Foundation, founded through the efforts of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

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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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Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises.

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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, or informally Sac State) is a public university in Sacramento, California.

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Christopher Award

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

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Cinco Puntos Press

Cinco Puntos Press is an imprint of publishing company Lee & Low Books.

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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 Awards

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

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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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 awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation.

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Massachusetts Bay Community College (MassBay) is a public community college in Norfolk and Middlesex Counties.

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Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans (mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage.

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Naperville, Illinois

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

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and 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 (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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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 Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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San Diego Reader

The San Diego Reader is an alternative press newspaper in the county of San Diego.

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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 and also known as Santa Teresa or La Santa de Cábora (the "Saint of Cabora") among the Mayo (October 15, 1873 – January 11, 1906), was a Mexican mystic, folk healer, and revolutionary insurgent. Luis Alberto Urrea and Teresa Urrea are Mexican emigrants to the United States.

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Terry Gross

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

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city in the state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico.

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Tucson Festival of Books

The Tucson Festival of Books is a free annual book fair held in Tucson, Arizona during the second weekend in March.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California.

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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University of Illinois Chicago

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

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University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana.

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Western States Book Award

Western States Book Award honored notable works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translation written and published in the Western United States.

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See also

University of Louisiana at Lafayette faculty

Writers from Tijuana

References

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

Also known as Luis Urrea.