Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo in New Mexico
Ana Castillo in New Mexico
Born (1953-06-15) June 15, 1953 (age 71)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • essayist
  • short story writer
EducationJones Commercial High School
Northeastern Illinois University (BS)
University of Chicago (MA)
University of Bremen
Literary movementXicanisma / Postmodernism
Notable worksSo Far from God, Massacre of the Dreamers, Loverboys, The Guardians
Notable awardsColumbia Foundation's American Book Award (1987)

Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is most known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist and for her intervention in Chicana feminism known as Xicanisma.[1][2]

Her works offer pungent and passionate socio-political comment that is based on established oral and literary traditions. Castillo's interest in race and gender issues can be traced throughout her writing career. Her novel Sapogonia was a 1990 New York Times Notable Book of the Year,[3] and her text So Far from God was a 1993 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[4] She is the editor of La Tolteca, an arts and literary magazine.[5]

Castillo held the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University. She has attained a number of awards including a 1987 American Book Award[6] from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry and in 1998 Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago.[7]

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  2. ^ Aviles, E. (2018). Contemporary U.S. Latinx literature in Spanish : straddling identities. Michele Shaul, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Amrita Das. Cham, Switzerland. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-3-030-02598-4. OCLC 1076485572.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Sapogonia (Novel 1990) | Ana Castillo". Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  4. ^ "Notable Books of the Year 1993". The New York Times. December 5, 1993. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  5. ^ "Bio | Ana Castillo". Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  6. ^ "PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD" (PDF). beforecolumbusfoundation.com. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  7. ^ "Bio – Ana Castillo – anacastillo.com". Archived from the original on September 28, 2010.