Name Tino Villanueva Role Poet | Awards American Book Awards | |
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Books Scene from the Movie Giant, So Spoke Penelope, Shaking off the dark, First Cause, Hay otra voz | ||
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Tino Villanueva (born December 11, 1941, San Marcos, Texas) is an American poet and writer.
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Chicano latino studies michigan state university 2011 tino villanueva chicano poet 20 of 20
Life
In 1963, he was drafted into the United States Army, and spent two years in the Panama Canal Zone. There he became immersed in Hispanic literature, reading Rubén Darío and José Martí. He graduated from Texas State University, on the G.I. Bill, from the State University of New York with an M.A. in 1971, and from Boston University with a doctorate in Spanish in 1981. He taught at Wellesley College. Villanueva currently serves as Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Romance Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University.
In the early 1970s, Villanueva began publishing his poems a part of The Chicano Literary Renaissance. He writes in both English and Spanish, often switching between the two languages. He founded Imagine Publishers, Inc., and edited Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal.
His papers are held at Texas State University.