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Margarita Ingle: First Latina to win a Newbery Honor Award
January 27, 2009
Margarita Ingle, author of The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom received one of four Newbery Honor Awards given by the American Library Association (ALA) at its Midwinter Conference in Denver, CO. She is the first Latina to receive such an honor. Ms. Ingle also received the 2009 Pura Belpre Author Award.
As per ALA’s news release:
In “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom,” published by Henry Holt, Engle’s hauntingly beautiful free verse prose breathes life into this finely crafted story that illuminates Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain in the 1800’s. Told from the perspective of four distinct voices, Engle intricately weaves a harrowing, heart wrenching story of enslavement, survival, determination and heroism.
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American poet, novelist and journalist whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include the critically acclaimed “The Poet Slave of Cuba,” winner of the 2007 Pura Belpré Award, among other honors. She lives with her husband in Northern California.
-The Pura Belpre Award is managed by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA, and The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, REFORMA.
A complete listing of the awards is posted here.
Posted by Loida García-Febo on January 27, 2009 | Comments (0)
