Rudolfo anaya biography bless me indeed
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Transcript of conversation with Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya: I was writing. I used to write at night. I was teaching school, and I was married, and had to do all the things that one does when one is working and has a family. But I used to write at night. And I was writing the novel about Antonio. So it was just going to be a childhood novel about this boy growing up in this small town in New Mexico. And one night I felt something behind me. And I turned and there was this woman, older woman, dressed in dark. And she asked me what I was doing. And I said I'm writing a story about Antonio, about my childhood. And she said, "Well, you're never going to get it right unless you put me in it." And I was surprised, I said, "What?" And she said, "Yes." And so then I asked her, "Well, what's your name?" She said, "Ultima." And that was the inspiration that changed the novel completely. It was no longer going to be a kind of Huckleberry Finn on the Pecos River. Her spirit was now in it, and I had to go deeper into that world of the Shaman, of spirituality, of conflicts of the soul that Antonio has to solve. That was NEA literature fellow and National Medal of Arts recipient Rudolfo Anaya talking about his classic novel, Bless Me Ultima, a trail-blazing book of Chicano l•
“Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya
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Rudolfo A. Anaya: In Memoriam
by Portia Vescio on 2020-07-01T20:10:00-06:00 in Chicano/a Studies, CSWR, Library, Southwest Studies & New Mexico | 0 CommentsRudolfo A. Anaya
October 30, 1937 – June 28, 2020
Rudolfo A. Anaya Papers (MSS 321), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections,
University of New Mexico Libraries.
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It was very sad news for the staff of the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) to hear of Rudolfo Anaya’s passing on Sunday, June 28. Rudolfo Anaya was a nationally renowned and noted writer, novelist, and children’s book author and was often considered the “godfather” of Chicano/a literature. Some of his books are required reading for many English Literature and Chicano Studies programs throughout the US. In addition, many of his books are also translated into various languages and read worldwide. He is particularly recognized for his 1972 novel Bless me, Ultima, which was subsequently adapted into a film and an opera. Furthermore, Bless me, Ultima remains a staple literary “must&rdqu