Graciela limon biography

American novelist

Graciela Limón (born August 2, , Los Angeles) is a Latina/Chicana^[1] novelist and a former university professor.

She has been honored with an American Book Award and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.^[2]

Limón has written critical work on Mexican, Latin American and Caribbean literature.&#;She now concentrates her writing efforts on creative fiction that is germane to her areas of interest: feminism, social justice and cultural identity.

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Her body of work includes In Search of Bernabé, which won The Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (). Limón also published The Memories of Ana Calderón (), Song of the Hummingbird () and The Day of the Moon ().

Erased Faces, which was awarded the Gustavus Myers Book Award, was published in ; Left Alive was released in ; The River Flows North in , and The Madness of Mamá Carlota in &#;Her latest book is The Intriguing Life of Ximen