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ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ MERCEDES SERIES

“I was also curious and liked to hang out with the old folks and listen to their stories about the Mexican Revolution, the Alamo and other events.”Īnd so he started writing about what he knew.

“I come from a family of readers,” he said of his early life in the Valley town of Mercedes. Hinojosa said there wasn’t any secret about his becoming a writer. His teaching days at the University of Texas, however, appear to be over, with his last classes ending with the most recent fall semester. “Age means nothing, as long as you can pick up a pencil,” he said. Hinojosa noted that he’ll turn 87 on Jan. With his typical humor, Hinojosa joked about his life, saying he didn’t really “know which lies he was going to tell” at the MLA conference, which attracted about 7,500 English and foreign-language scholars to the Austin Convention Center over the weekend. Madrid added that Hinojosa’s work, which is usually printed in both English and Spanish, is a marvel of translation - that Hinojosa creates in one language and then re-creates in another. Until Hinojosa’s writing, representations of Mexican-American life in the Valley were one-dimensional, said Arturo Madrid, a longtime Hinojosa friend and Trinity University professor. The series, which is based in the imaginary Belken County of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, focuses on “people who allow others to understand another culture,” one that’s rich in comedy and bilingualism, said Ralph Edward Rodriguez of Brown University.

ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ MERCEDES SERIES

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Rolando Hinojosa y su "cronicón" chicano: Una novela del lector. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press.

^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013".

^ "Voice of the Valley: An Interview with Rolando Hinojosa-Smith".

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^ Voice of the Valley: An Interview with Rolando Hinojosa-Smith | Humanities Texas Retrieved.

^ "Texas Classics: 'This Writer's Sense of Place,' by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith".

Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson ( Trinity University Press, 2008).

Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Rolando Hinojosa-Smith.

(Hinojosa's own translation of Estampas del Valle)

Korea Liebes Lieder/Korean Love Songs.

"Crossing the Line: The Construction of a Poem." Milwaukee, WI: Spanish Speaking Outreach Institute-U.

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Book Critics Circle Award.

He also received the third and final Premio Quinto Sol Annual Prize (1972), for his work Estampas del Valle y otras obras. Hinojosa was the first Chicano author to receive the prestigious Premio Casa de las Américas award for Klail City y sus alrededores ( Klail City), part of the series. Although he prefers to write in Spanish, Hinojosa has also translated his own books and written others in English. He has completely populated a fictional county in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas through this generational narrative. Hinojosa has devoted most of his career as a writer to his Klail City Death Trip Series, which comprises 15 volumes to-date, from Estampas del Valle y otras obras (1973) to We Happy Few (2006).

Hinojosa received a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1969. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and New Mexico Highlands University. Like his grandmother, mother and three of his four siblings, Hinojosa became a teacher he has held several academic posts and has also been active in administration and consulting work. An avid reader during childhood, Hinojosa was raised speaking Spanish until junior high, where English was the primary spoken language. His father fought in the Mexican Revolution while his mother maintained the family north of the border. He was born in Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley in 1929, to a family with strong Mexican and American roots and grew up in Mercedes, Texas.