New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalists

Book Award Finalists Announced

The finalists in the 2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards have been announced. the list is posted on the Book Co-op website at http://nmbookcoop.com/BookAwards/2016-Finalists/2016-Finalists.html CLICK HERE

The winners will be announced at the awards banquet on November 18.

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The 2016 Awards Banquet will be held on Friday, November 18, 2016 at the Tanoan Country Club, located at 10801 Academy Road NE, Albuquerque.

University of New Mexico honoring Rudolfo Anaya with lecture

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico will pay homage this week to acclaimed Mexican-American novelist Rudolfo Anaya, who was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.

The lecture was created through a donation from the Pastura, New Mexico-born author who also founded the school’s creative writing program.
Novelist and poet Rigoberto Gonzalez is scheduled to speak Thursday at an event that is part of the Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest. Anaya’s novel “Bless Me, Ultima” was made into a movie in 2013 and an opera based on the book is in the works.
Gonzalez said he is honored to speak at the Anaya lecture, especially since Anaya mentored him as a young writer.  Read more from the Albuquerque Journal

Rudolfo Anaya "La Bloga"

Interview with Rudolfo Anaya. Mid-day Floricanto.
Union Floricanto. On-line Floricanto.  La Bloga

Interview with Rudolfo Anaya: The Old Man’s Love Story and The Sorrows of Young Alfonso.
Michael Sedano, Rudolfo Anaya, Jesús Treviño, Oso

Rudolfo Anaya to receive National Humanities Medal

Professor Emeritus to receive National Humanities Medal from President Obama

Called the ‘Dean of Chicano writers’, University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and author Rudolfo Anaya is being honored by President Barack Obama as one of 12 recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. Anaya... read more

Dia de Los Ninos

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Remember the Holocaust

Before Zozobra, a moment to remember the Holocaust - from the Santa Fe New Mexican

What: Holocaust memorial
When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1
Where: Fort Marcy park
Cost: Free
 
Thousands of revelers will gather Friday at Fort Marcy Ballpark for the 92nd burning of Will Shuster’s Zozobra and the symbolic opportunity to let go of the regrets of the past year, take a deep breath and start afresh.

But this year, 24 hours before Old Man Gloom will be set on fire, the Kiwanis Club, keeper of the flame, will present a Holocaust memorial.

The juxtaposition of the two events — the staging of a pagan-like ritual with a service honoring the victims and survivors of Nazi genocide — may seem incongruous. But not to event organizer Ray Sandoval, who came up with the idea.

The Holocaust memorial is part of the Kiwanis Club’s Decades Project leading up to the 100th anniversary of the burning of Zozobra. The club decided that each year in the 10 years between 2014 and 2024 it would to give the giant marionette the look and style of one decade of his life. In 2014, for example, it was the Roaring Twenties and Zozo, his hands tied behind his back, sported a handlebar mustache and a maroon waistband. In 2015, he was fat and bald around the middle to signify the despair of the Great Depression. Read more in the Santa Fe New Mexican.

 

Zozobra in Santa Fe

Zozobra "Cast your troubles away"
Article from "Weekly Alibi" Albuquerque

Scanned article and "Burn, Baby, Burn!"