Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea (* 1955 in Tijuana ) is a Mexican-American writer.
Life
Urrea was born in Tijuana , Mexico , but lived most of his life in the United States . His father was Mexican and his mother was a US citizen.
His literary work has already earned him several awards and a place on the bestseller lists. It is mainly characterized by the treatment of the ambivalent identity and migration problems in connection with the border between the USA and Mexico. His literary work is therefore attributed to the so-called Chicano literature .
His non-fiction book The Devil's Highway was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, and the autobiographical Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life won the American Book Award in 1999 . In 2010 he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Short Story category for his story Amapola .
The author teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago .
Works
- 1993 Across the Wire
- 1994 In Search of Snow
- 1994 The Fever of Being
- 1996 By the Lake of Sleeping Children
- 1997 Ghost Sickness
- 1998 Nobody's Son
- 1999 Wandering Time
- 2002 Six Kinds of Sky
- 2004 The Devil's Highway
- 2005 The Hummingbird's Daughter (German Kolibris daughter . Pendo-Verlag, Munich, 2007)
- 2009 Into The Beautiful North
Web links
- Homepage
- Short biography and reviews of works by Luis Alberto Urrea at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Luis Alberto Urrea in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urrea, Luis Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tijuana |