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Rudolfo Anaya (October 30, 1937 – June 28, 2020) was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano and New Mexican literature.
Rudolfo Anaya (born October 30, 1937, Pastura, New Mexico, U.S.—died June 28, 2020, Albuquerque) was an American novelist and educator whose fiction expresses his Mexican American heritage, the tradition of folklore and oral storytelling in Spanish, and the Jungian mythic perspective.
Jul 3, 2020 · Rudolfo Anaya, a writer whose trailblazing explorations of the folkways of the Southwest helped define the Latino experience in the United States, died on Sunday at his home in Albuquerque. He...
Jun 30, 2020 · Anaya died Sunday at his home in New Mexico after a long illness, his niece told The Associated Press. He was 82.
Jun 30, 2020 · Author Rudolfo Anaya, who wrote the classic New Mexico-set novel “Bless Me, Ultima” and was revered as the dean of Chicano literature, has died. He was 82.
Jul 1, 2020 · RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82.
Born to Rafaelita and Martin Anaya on October 30, 1937, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the youngest in a family of ten siblings; a large family not much different from the other families in the small village of Pastura, New Mexico.
