What is Rudolfo Anaya?
{{Infobox writer | image = Rudolfo Anaya (264693897).jpg | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|10|30}} | birth_place = [[Pastura, New Mexico]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|06|28|1937|10|30}} | death_place = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] | occupation = Novelist, poet, play writer, educator | nationality = American | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Bless Me, Ultima'' <br/> ''Alburquerque'' | spouse = Patricia Lawless | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = {{awd|[[American Book Award]];| [[Quinto Sol]];| [[National Medal of Arts]]}} | signature = | website = }} '''Rudolfo Anaya''' (October 30, 1937 – June 28, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[Teacher|educator]] and [[playwright]]. He was best known for his 1972 novel ''[[Bless Me, Ultima]]''. Anaya was thought to be one of the founders of [[Chicano]] literature.<ref>Cesar A. Gonzales-T., ''The Ritual and Myth of Experience in the Works of Rudolfo A. Anaya'', published in ''A Sense of Place: Rudolfo A. Anaya: An Annotated Bio-Bibliography'' (2000).</ref> He was born in [[Pastura, New Mexico]]. Anaya died on June 28, 2020 at his home in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=June 30, 2020|title=Beloved NM author Rudolfo Anaya passes away|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/1471290/beloved-nm-author-rudolfo-anaya-passes-away.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=June 30, 2020|title=Famed Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya dies at age 82|url=https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/famed-chicano-author-rudolfo-anaya-dies-at-age-82/5777286/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830055143/https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/famed-chicano-author-rudolfo-anaya-dies-at-age-82/5777286/|archive-date=August 30, 2020|access-date=|website=}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ana