Rudolfo Anaya’s The First Tortilla has been chosen for the Land of Enchantment Book Award, a children’s book award designed to encourage New Mexico youth to read books of high literary quality. The award is sponsored by the New Mexico Library Association and the New Mexico International Reading Association.

Sam Quinones, author of the acclaimed Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, was recently interviewed on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. The transcript of the interview can be accessed here.

The Center for Regional Studies at UNM has donated more than $23,000 worth of books published by the University of New Mexico Press to under-funded public and tribal libraries in rural areas in New Mexico. Under the leadership of Tobiás Durán, the Center for Regional Studies purchased copies of forty-eight UNM Press titles that were recently shipped to forty-one libraries across the state. The CRS and UNMP hope that this project, now in its third year, will continue to build upon the strong respect of literacy and learning that each of the individual institutions promotes through its initiatives.

The CRS supports research and teaching with a focus on New Mexico, the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, Latin America, and Spain. Through its acquisition and preservation of manuscript, diary, document, photographic, and oral history collections, the CRS encourages a learning community, as exemplified in its donation to state libraries.

The King's Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe by Pamela Christie has won the 2007 Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women's Association for the best book published in the previous year. New Mexico Press Women is an organization of professional journalists and communicators that promotes communication ethics and standards through professional development, networking and protection of our First Amendment rights.

David Holtby, UNM Press Editor-in-Chief, has been awarded the Edgar Lee Hewett Award for 2006 from the Historical Society of New Mexico. The award will be presented during the HSNM annual conference in Albuquerque. The award is granted to an individual or institution for outstanding services to the public in the field of historic preservation, education, or volunteer activities. After serving for over 25 years as an acquiring editor in history, Holtby has recently retired from the Press. Congratulations, David!

The novel Cottonwood Saints by Gene Guerin won the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize for excellence in Chicano writing and is sponsored by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya. Gene is a documentary film writer and a resident of Denver.

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Our authors are respected scholars, knowledgeable in various important subjects of the day. See the Author Experts page for a current listing of authors available for interviews or information on such issues as free speech, Western natural resources, New Mexico history, and more.

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