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Francisco laguna correa recibe premio de la academia norteamericana de la lengua espa ola anle
Francisco Laguna Correa is a Chicano-Mexican writer and editor, born in Mexico City, who resides in the United States. He is the author of the book of flash fictions Finales felices (2012), which was awarded the 2012 National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an institution based in New York City. His book of prose poems Crush Me: Ría Brava (a broken novel) was awarded the International Poetry Prize "Desiderio Macías Silva" of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes in 2013. In 2016, Laguna Correa was one of the recipients of The Fuerza Award, a social recognition for his intellectual activism in the Pittsburgh area granted by The City of Pittsburgh, the collective Café con Leche, and The Latin American Cultural Union (LACU). The Chicago Review of Books recommended his book Crush Me (a broken novel) for the 2017 National Poetry Month.
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- Francisco laguna correa recibe premio de la academia norteamericana de la lengua espa ola anle
- Education
- Awards
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Education
He graduated with a double BA in Hispanic Studies and Liberal Studies at the UNAM and Portland State University, he also holds two master's degrees, one in Immigration and another in Hispanic Philosophy, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the recipient in 2014 of the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh to join the Creative Writing program and teach undergraduate clases of Critical Thinking and Writing in English. He also holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Awards
(2012) National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) in New York City, USA
(2013) International Poetry Prize Desiderio Macías Silva in Aguascalientes, Mexico
(2016) The Fuerza Award in Pittsburgh, PA, USA