Tag: awards
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Texas literature receives multiple 2018 NBCC Award nominations
New York, NY—Tuesday, January 22, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced its 31 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the outstanding books of 2018, and Texas makes a strong showing. The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Little, Brown) by Mark Lamster is nominated…
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Texas kid lit wins multiple awards
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems (Cinco Puntos Press) by David Bowles was named as an honor book for the Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature in the Young Readers category. A Mexican-American author from deep South Texas, Bowles is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.…