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Media Contact : Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627 October 27, 2008 Nicolás Kanellos Wins UNM’sCritica Nueva Chicano/a Literary Criticism Award Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston, has been selected to receive the Critica Nueva award by University Libraries. The award program and presentation is set for Friday, Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. As part of the event, Kanellos presents, “Re-Constructing the Literature of Hispanic Immigration.” The Critica Nueva Award was established in 1997 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya to acknowledge outstanding Chicano/Chicana scholars and bring them to UNM to present their works. The selection committee chose Kanellos because, in addition to fomenting the work of Chicano/a writers over the years by establishing Arte Público Press and publishing their work, he also established the Revista Chicano-Riqueña, a journal in which he published both creative work and critical/analytical pieces. Kanellos has supported the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Recovery Project by writing grants to preserve Spanish language newspapers, out of print books and books that have never been published. Kanellos has been a central force in the resurgence of Chicano/a literature and in the preservation of this heritage for more than thirty years. He is also a distinguished scholar, having authored and/or edited more than 27 books and written more than 75 book chapters and articles. For more information, contact Patricia Campbell at (505) 277-1010 or pcamp@unm.edu
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