Awards & Winners

Alberto Ríos

Date of Birth 18-September-1952
Place of Birth Nogales
(Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Alberto Rios, Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Profession Writer
Alberto Álvaro Ríos is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His books of poems include, most recently, The Dangerous Shirt, along with The Theater of Night, winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, finalist for the National Book Award, Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses, The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indiscretions, and Whispering to Fool the Wind, which won the Walt Whitman Award. His three collections of short stories are, most recently, The Curtain of Trees, along with Pig Cookies and The Iguana Killer, which won the first Western States Book Award for Fiction, judged by Robert Penn Warren. His memoir about growing up on the Mexico-Arizona border, called Capirotada, won the Latino Literary Hall of Fame Award and was designated the OneBookArizona choice for 2009. Ríos is the recipient of the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, six Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, and inclusion in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, as well as over 300 other national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music.

Awards by Alberto Ríos

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alberto Ríos.

2007


Beyond Margins Award
Honored for : Theater of Night

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

1981


Walt Whitman Award
Honored for : Whispering to Fool the Wind