What is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith?
[[File:Rolando hinojosa 2014.jpg|right|200px]] '''Rolando Hinojosa''' (January 21, 1929<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEzVPFL9Oc0C&q=Rolando+Hinojosa-Smith+January+21+,+1929 | title=Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide | isbn=9780313236914 | last1=Martinez (Ed) | first1=Julio A. | last2=Lomelí | first2=Francisco A. | year=1985 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/2022/04/22/austin-rolando-hinojosa-smith-obit-acclaimed-author-professor-has-died/7400721001/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2022-04-23 |archive-date=2022-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422150118/https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/2022/04/22/austin-rolando-hinojosa-smith-obit-acclaimed-author-professor-has-died/7400721001/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> &ndash; April 19, 2022) was an American novelist, essayist and poet. He was the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor in the English Department at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books/2014/08/09/texas-classics-this-writers-sense-of-place-by-rolando-hinojosa-smith|title= Texas Classics: 'This Writer's Sense of Place,' by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith|date= August 2014|work= Dallas News}}</ref> He was born in [[Mercedes, Texas|Mercedes]], [[Texas]]. He was known for his ''Klail City Death Trip Series,''. Hinojosa was the first [[Chicano]] author to win [[Premio Casa de las Américas]] award. Hinojosa-Smith died on April 19, 2022 at the age of 93.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Award-winning Latino author Rolando Hinojosa-Smith dies at 93 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/award-winning-latino-author-rolando-hinojosa-smith-dies-93-rcna25279 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/rolando-hinojosa/ ''Encyclopedia of World Biography'' on Rolando Hinojosa] {{subscription required}} * [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/facu