Premio Aztlán Literary Prize

The Premio Aztlán Literary Prize is a national literary award for emerging Chicana and Chicano authors, founded in 1993 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya.^[1] The award was originally sponsored by the University of New Mexico, but was moved in 2008 to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.^[2]

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.^[1]

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^[3]
• 2009: Gloria Zamora, Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
• 2008: Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo^[4]
• 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 award^[5]
• 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, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
• 1994: Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel
• 1993: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories