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Juan Felipe Herrera Awarded PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Latest Work

by nezua. written Thursday, December 17th, 2009 11:36 am

JUAN FELIPE HERRERA, celebrated and prolific Chicano poet, has been awarded the PEN/Beyond Margins award for his latest work, Half of the World in Light.

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JUAN FELIPE HERRERA, celebrated and prolific Chicano poet, has been awarded the PEN/Beyond Margins award for his latest work, Half of the World in Light (available for purchase here).

Poet Juan Felipe Herrera has received nationwide attention for his recent collection of poems, which was published by the University of Arizona Press.

Herrera won an International Latino Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Praised by the New York Times as “wildly inventive,” he earned a spot on the 2008 New York Times Notable Book list.

And, now, Herreras has been named the winner of the 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award for his collection, “Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems,” which was published last year by the UA Press.

—UA News