Américas Award for M2BT

My Two Border Towns has won the Américas Award, alongside Gloria Amescua’s fabulous Child of the Flower-Song People! From the CLASP website: The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non- fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in…

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Award for THE IMMORTAL BOY

My translation of The Immortal boy (by the incredible Colombian author Francisco Montaña Ibáñez) has been named the 2022 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Honor Title. The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) focuses on making world literature more visible for kids and adults. Here’s what they say about themselves:…

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Two Awards from TIL

TWO (2) of my books just won awards from the Texas Institute of Letters: The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas for Best Translation and The Witch Owl Parliament (Clockwork Curandera #1) for Best YA Book (which I wrote with my cool carnal and collaborator Raúl the Third). I…

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Batchelder Award for TSRW

So thrilled that my translation of The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas was selected as a Batchelder Honor Book by the American Library Association! Shout-out to publisher Levine Querido, writer María García Esperón, editor Nick Thomas, and illustrator Amanda Mijangos!

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