Award News - Veronica Gonzalez wins Premio Aztlán Literary Award

The National Latino Writers conference has announced that Veronica Gonzalez has been awarded the 2008 Premio Aztlán Literary Award for her novel Twin Time: Or, How Death Befell Me.
The Premio Aztlán Literary Award is a national literary award, established to encourage and reward emerging Chicana and Chicano authors. Renowned author Rudolfo Anaya and his wife, Patricia, founded Premio Aztlán in 1993. The prize was reestablished in their honor in 2004 by the University of New Mexico Libraries.

The prize committee writes:

This exciting novel traces Mona's search for her twin brother who was given away for adoption soon after the mother died.  Gonzalez takes the reader on a marvelous journey full of uncertainty, mystery, seances, dreams, and intuitions that reveal Mona's cultural roots in her native Mexico and in her new homeland, the United States.

Twin Time is enticing, beautifully written, lyrical and poetic.  Flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and circumlocution are techniques that Gonzalez employs with ease.  But the writing goes beyond technique.  The novel speaks to something much more profound and intrinsic - Gonzalez' literary talent.
This year's judges for the Premio Aztlán were in agreement, Gonzalez has a natural gift for writing.  In Spanish this gift is called a don.  Twin Time is a novel with don. 

Congratulations to Veronica Gonzalez!