Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Duncan Tonatiuh and Margarita Engle:
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Authors Duncan Tonatiuh and Margarita Engle will receive the Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature during a special awards presentation on Friday, Sept. 18, at 3 p.m. in the Hispanic Division Reading Room, located on the second floor of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.
The award is co-sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) and administered by both Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies. The Library of Congress Hispanic Division and its Center for the Book host the event, which is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made through the Library’s Special Events Office at (202) 707-5218.
Author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh will be honored for his book "Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation," (Abrams Books, 2014). Tonatiuh, whose roots are both Mexican and American, has won both the Pura Belpre Illustrator Award and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American children's book award for previous works.
Cuban-American novelist Margarita Engle was previously an Americas Award honoree for "The Surrender Tree" in 2007 and "Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck" in 2012. This year, she receives the Americas Award for "Silver People: Voices for the Panama Canal" (Houghton Mifflin, 2014).
The Americas Award recognizes outstanding U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore or selected nonfiction published in the previous year that authentically and engagingly portrays Latin Americans, Caribbeans or Latinos in the United States. For more information about the award and CLASP, visit www.claspprograms.org.
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AMERS1_150918_097.JPG: John Y. Cole, Director, Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
AMERS1_150918_672.JPG: Duncan Tonatiuh
AMERS2_150918_031.JPG: Margarita Engle
AMERS2_150918_291.JPG: Duncan Tonatiuh and Alison Morris
AMERS2_150918_321.JPG: Margarita Engle and Alison Morris
AMERS2_150918_323.JPG: Duncan Tonatiuh, Alison Morris, and Margarita Engle
AMERS2_150918_334.JPG: John Cole and Alison Morris
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2015 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha!
Trips this year:
a quick trip to Florida.
two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.