George Rabasa
George Rabasa (born December 29, 1941) is an American writer and author of four novels and a short story collection. Rabasa has received such honors as The Loft Career Initiative Grant,[1] The Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award,[2] and two Minnesota Book Awards.[3][4]
Background
Rabasa was born December 29, 1941 in Biddeford, Maine. In 1964 he earned a B.A. from the University of the Americas, Mexico D.F./Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, with a double major in English literature and Journalism.
Partial bibliography
Novels
- The Wonder Singer (Unbridled Books, 2008)
- The Cleansing (The Permanent Press, 2006)
- Floating Kingdom (Coffee House Press, 1997)
Short stories
- Glass Houses (Coffee House Press, 1996).
Selected by A.M. Homes for the Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in Fiction
Anthologies
- “Family Lines”, A Ghost at Heart's Edge, North Atlantic Books, 1999.
- “Jimmy Pearl's Blue Oyster”, 26 Minnesota Writers, Nodin Press, 1995.
Journals
- “Yolanda by Day”, American Literary Review, 2003.[5]
- “Fallen Coconuts and Dead Fish”, Green Hills, 2003.
- “Ask Señor Totol”, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2002-2003.[6]
- “Hay Soos Saves”, North Dakota Quarterly, 2002.[7]
- “For the Solitary Soul”, South Carolina Review, 2001.[8]
- “Three Incidents in the Early Life of El Perro”, Atlanta Review, 2001.
- “The Beautiful Wife”, Glimmer Train Stories, 1995.[9]
Awards
- The Loft Literary Center Career Initiative Grant, 2008[1]
- A BookSense Notable Book Selection, The Cleansing, 2006[10]
- Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Fellowship, 2001[11]
- Minnesota Book Award for Novel, Floating Kingdom, 1998[4]
- Minnesota Book Award for Short Fiction, Glass Houses, 1997[3]
- The Writers Voice Capricorn Award, Excellence in Fiction, 1992[2]
References
- 1 2 "2009 Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Program" (PDF). The Loft Literary Center. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- 1 2 "Author Profile: George Rabasa". bookreporter.com. The Book Report. June 26, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- 1 2 "Past Finalists and Winners - 1997". Minnesota Book Awards. The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- 1 2 "Past Finalists and Winners - 1998". Minnesota Book Awards. The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- ↑ "Past issues". American Literary Review. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- ↑ "Hayden's Ferry Review -- Issue 35". Arizone State University. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- ↑ North Dakota Quarterly Archived December 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Rabasa, George (Spring 2001). South Carolina Review. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University. 33 (2). Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Rabasa, George (August 1, 2009). "A Recipe for Illusion: Memory, Imagination, Research". Glimmer Train Stories. Glimmer Train Press. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- ↑ "Bookselling This Week: The August Book Sense Picks & Notables Preview". news.bookweb.org. American Booksellers Association. July 2006. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- ↑ "17 Minnesota Artists Awarded $136,000 in Poetry and Prose Fellowships". Minnesota State Arts Board. Archived from the original on January 16, 2003. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
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