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Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest:
An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2, edited by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions, was recently the subject of
a feature article in
The New York Review
of Books. Read the article,
"A Lost World on the Map,"
on the Review's website.

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Manuel Peña, author of the new memoir Where the Ox Does Not Plow was interviewed recently by several media outlets in Texas. Listen to his interviews at these sites:

Texas Public Radio's
"Texas Matters"

Radio Bilingue and

"Author’s corner"
on themonitor.co
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ACCLAIM for Antonio’s Gun
and Delfino’s Dream
by Sam Quinones

"a keen look at the migrant economy... [in] nine skillful, moving stories. Quinones layers with the sociological, economic and historical context of 60 years of immigration... [in these] very fine pieces of literary journalism."--Publishers Weekly starred review March 5

Sam Quinones was recently interviewed on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Read the transcript here
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Sixty years ago, the United States turned to the tiny atom to unleash the most destructive force known to mankind and bring an end to World War II. Ironically, the uranium used to create the most technologically advanced weapon ever invented came from the land of the most traditional indigenous people of North America, and was dug from the earth with picks and shovels.
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The Voyage of the Beetle was featured
at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. by the New Mexico Library Association.

RECENT AWARDS

New Mexico's Crypto-Jews was named
Best Nonfiction Book--Religion for 2008 by
the National Federation of Press Women. Cary Herz was also presented with the
New Mexico Press Women's Communicator
of Achievement Award, 2008, for exceptional achievement in the communications field
and service to the community.

Sam Quinones, author of Antonio' s Gun and Delfino's Dream and True Tales from Another Mexico, has been awarded a Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean for 2008.

Discarded Pages: Aracelli Cab Cumí,
Maya Poet and Politician by Kathleen R. Martin has won the A. B. Thomas Award
for best book on Latin America from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).

Jack Loeffler, author of Survival Along the Continental Divide, Adventures with Ed, and La Musica de los Viejitos has been awarded a 2008 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts for ethnomusicology and writing.

Two books available from UNM Press, Outrider by Anne Waldman (La Alameda Press) and Landscapes of Colorado by
Ann Scarlett Daley and Michael Paglia (Fresco Fine Art Publications), are finalists
for Colorado Book Awards from Colorado Humanities. The awards recognize the work
of Colorado authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers in ten categories.

Anne H. Weaver, author of Voyage of the
Beetle, illustrated by George Lawrence, won
the New Mexico Press Women's Zia Award for best children's book for 2008.

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.

The King’s Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe by Pamela Christie won the 2007 Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women’s Association for the best book published in the previous year.

The Witches of Abiquiú: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil by Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks has been awarded the Historical Society of New Mexico’s 2006 Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award for Outstanding Publication in the Field of History.
It is now available in paperback.

Bitter Harvest by Paul Hart won the 2007 Harvey Johnson Prize for best book of the year from the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS).

Anthropologists and authors Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock were awarded the Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2006 by PEN New Mexico for their books on Southwest and Central American cultures.

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