Francisco Laguna Correa
| Francisco Laguna Correa | |
|---|---|
 At High Point University | |
| Born |
September 20, 1982 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Writer, college professor, editor. |
| Alma mater |
UNAM (B.A.) Autonomous University of Madrid (M.A.) UNC-Chapel Hill (Ph.D.) University of Pittsburgh (M.F.A.) |
| Genre | Literary fiction, non-fiction |
| Literary movement | Postmodern literature, Post-postmodernism, Hybrid Literature, Bilingual literature and translingual narratives |
| Notable works | Wild North, Finales felices, Crush Me |
Francisco Laguna Correa is a Chicano-Mexican writer and editor, born in Mexico City, who resides in the United States.[1][2] 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.[3][4][5] 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.[6] 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). [7][8]
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.[9] He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[10] 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.
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
Published work
- (2011) Crítica literaria y otros cuentos, Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615520669
- (2012) Finales felices, North American Academy of the Spanish Language, New York, ISBN 978-0-9850961-4-4
- (2012) Finales felices, Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615719473
- (2013) Crítica literaria y otros cuentos (corregidos y aumentados), Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615794823
- (2013) Finales felices, rdeditores, Seville, Spain, ISBN 9788415658405
- (2014) ‘Los esclavos’, Sub-Urbano Ed., Miami, Collection 20/40 (20 Latin American writers under the age of 40)
- (2014) Resquebrajadura (deforme y mutilado, este relato...), Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615984061
- (2016) “Wild North”, https://www.amazon.com/North-Spanish-Francisco-Laguna-Correa/dp/0998139807
- (2017) “Crush Me (a broken novel)”, https://chireviewofbooks.com/2017/04/19/add-these-books/
External links
Interview with Francisco Laguna-Correa, UNC Global Institute http://global.unc.edu/news/global-heels-francisco-laguna-correa-mexico/
Interview with Francisco Laguna-Correa, University of Pittsburgh http://pittnewsprofiles.com/silhouettes-2016/francisco-laguna-correa/
Reading of Crush Me: Ría Brava (a broken novel) at Duke University (Social Justice & Cultural Self-Determination in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI3hIv-_4mQ
References
- ↑ Website of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. "Francisco Laguna Correa gana segundo certamen literario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española". Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ↑ Laguna-Correa, Francisco (2011). Crítica literaria y otros cuentos. USA: Editorial Paroxismo. p. 98. ISBN 0615520669.
- ↑ Website of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. "Francisco Laguna Correa gana segundo certamen literario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española". Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ↑ "Blog de Manuel Garrido Palacios" (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ↑ Website of the newspaper El Universal. "Francisco Laguna Correa gana premio de la ANLE" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ Website of the newspaper La Jornada-Aguscalientes http://www.lja.mx/2013/09/inauguran-el-tercer-festival-de-las-artes-de-la-uaa/. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ↑ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The 2016 Fuerza Awards".
- ↑ Radical Narratives. "Crush Me by f.l. Crank".
- ↑ Website of the El Cuento en Red, Revista Electrónica de Estudios sobre la Ficción Breve. "Interview with Francisco Laguna Correa (in Spanish)" (PDF).
- ↑ Website of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. "Francisco Laguna Correa gana segundo certamen literario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española". Retrieved 4 October 2012.