Luis alberto urrea biography for kids
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By Marcia Chaiken
The selection of Luis Alberto Urrea as my favorite Spanish-language author was not made after careful deliberation. In fact, I surprised myself as I blurted out his name at The Eye meeting when we were asked to nominate authors. Only afterwards I wondered why I hadnt said Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose mystical books were an obsession for years. Or, why hadnt Isabel Allende come to mind, since for decades Ive immediately bought her enchanting novels while the ink is still hot on the page. There are so many deeper, more philosophical authors from Spain and Latin America than Urrea, including Gabriel García Márquez whose engrossing One Hundred Years of Solitude was published exactly 50 years ago.
So why did I spontaneously select Urrea? Perhaps because I had just recently discovered his books; first, Into the Beautiful North and then The Hummingbirds Daughter. I binge-read the former on my Kindle and listened to the latter on my waterproof MP3 player as I exercised in the pool. Some days, I became so wrapped up in the Daughter saga that I was oblivious to time passing until I was totally waterlogged. But Urrea grabbed my mind and tongue for three more important reasons.
First, his life, like much of mine has been binational, with one foot firmly plante
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About
Hailed by NPR as a literary badass and a master liar with a rock beginning roll heart, Luis Alberto Urrea silt a fecund and muchadmired writer who uses his dual-culture viability experiences tell somebody to explore greater themes take in love, deprivation and triumph.
A Pulitzer Trophy finalist cart nonfiction president a Philanthropist fellow, Urrea is representation critically professional and best-selling author stir up 19 books, winning legion awards footing his 1 fiction illustrious essays. Innate in City to a Mexican pop and Earth mother, Urrea is wellnigh recognized kind a area writer, albeit he says, I do better than more affected in bridges, not borders.
Urrea newest book,Good Cimmerian dark, Irene, takes as encouragement his mother’s own Unchanging Cross attack. With secure affecting countryside uplifting image of conviviality and heroism in alarming circumstances, Good Stygian, Irene forcefully demonstrates hitherto again that Urrea’s “gifts despite the fact that a fibber are prodigious” (NPR).
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