Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya was an American writer, novelist and university teacher (1937–2020). He was born at Pastura and died at Albuquerque.

Rudolfo Anaya in brief

Born
1937
Died
2020
Known for
writer, novelist and university teacher
Place of birth
Pastura
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Recognition and collections

Rudolfo Anaya received American Book Awards, National Medal of Arts, National Humanities Medal, Tomás Rivera Award and Owen Wister Award.

Catalogued works

41 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Bless Me, Ultima. Poems from the Río Grande. A child's Christmas in New Mexico. Song to the Rio Grande = Cancion al Rio Grande. Cornerstones. Alhucema. Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico. Ismith Khan in the Jemez Mountains. Chant in the Blood. Rescoldando Chile Verde. La Papa. El Gato. Buddha Poem. Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez. Solstice. Vernal Equinox. The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas. In This Earth. The Apotheosis of Macho on the West Mesa. Aspen Magpies. Alchemy. fire consumes. Last Wish. Beware the ChupaCabra. Forgetting. Chicano Haiku. Water. El Corrido de Billy the Kid. Isis in the Heart: A Love Poem for Patricia. Sailing to Barcelona. The man who could fly and other stories. The road to Platero. Children of the desert. The village that the Gods painted yellow. A story. The silence of the Llano. The place of the swallows. The apple orchard. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca. Jerónimo's journey. Kurajé, dated 1971, etching and aquatint on off-white wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1972.188.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

La mirada del niño chicano en Rudolfo Anaya: Ollie Tecolote Identidad cultural chicana en la literatura infantil y juvenil de Rudolfo Anaya, Camino Real. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, 2022. Rudolfo A. Anaya Bibliography 2021, Camino Real. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, 2025. Rudolfo Anaya por la tierra roja, Camino Real. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, 2025. A Tribute Recordando a Rudolfo A. Anaya: From Aztlan to Mictlán, Camino Real. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, 2022. Directing a Play by Rudolfo Anaya: Un recuerdo y muchas memorias, Camino Real. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, 2025. “Message from the Inca”, RSA Journal, 1993. Si volvemos a vernos, tierra querida. El papel del entorno natural en Una mina llamada Infierno y Zia Summer, Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, 2014. Le temps des nouveaux guerriers : le héros culturel, figure de la reconquête identitaire et territoriale, Amnis, 2002. Implementation of Socio-Utopian Ideas in Literature of 1970s: The functions and Role of Idyllic Chronotope in the novels of S. Zalygin The Commission and R. Anaya The Heart of Aztlan, RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2025. Transcendentalist Ideas in Works of Mexican-American Border Writers of 20th Century: Mary Hunter Austin and Rudolfo Anaya, Научный диалог, 2024. Borders of the Self in Alfredo Véa's The Silver Cloud Café, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2001. Walking down the Borderline: Hybridity and the Modulation of the Self in Three Canonical Chicano Novels, Odisea, 2017. The Use of Liminality in the Deconstruction of Women’s Roles: Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless me, Ultima, Odisea, 2018.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in VIAF (110322020). Those registers additionally record the forms Rudolfo Anaya, 1937-, Rudolfo Anaya, eskritor merikano, Rudolfo Anaya, amerikansk skribent, Rudolfo Anaya, escritor, novelista, autor y profesor universitario méxico-estadounidense, Rudolfo Anaya, Amerikaans schrijver, Rudolfo Anaya, American Chicano novelist, poet (1937–2020), Rudolfo Anaya, amerikansk författare, Rudolfo Anaya, 1937-2020 and Rudolfo Anaya, Novelist, poet.

Digitised editions and texts

5 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Zia Summer (1995) — Internet Archive. The Santero's Miracle; A Bilingual Story (2007) — Internet Archive. The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story (2012) — Internet Archive. Blue Mesa Review Number Five (1993) — Internet Archive. Rio Grande Fall (1996) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 17 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Rudolfo Anaya studied at University of New Mexico and Albuquerque High School. the recorded working language is Spanish.

The field of work recorded is literature and creative and professional writing.

Distinctions recorded are American Book Awards, National Medal of Arts, National Humanities Medal and Tomás Rivera Award.

Chronology

  1. 1937Rudolfo Anaya born at Pastura.
  2. 1993Blue Mesa Review Number Five digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1995Zia Summer digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1996Rio Grande Fall digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 2007The Santero's Miracle; A Bilingual Story digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 2012The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 2020Rudolfo Anaya died at Albuquerque.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Rudolfo Anaya”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1326764: Rudolfo Anaya

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