Awards & Winners

Viola Canales

Date of Birth 21-April-1957
Place of Birth McAllen
(Hidalgo County, Texas, Area code 956)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Viola Canales is an American writer originally from McAllen, Texas. She has published a short story collection, Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales, and a novel, The Tequila Worm for which she won the Pura Belpré Award in 2006. Canales attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. She has been a captain in the US Army, a litigator, and an official in the Clinton Administration. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where she teaches courses that combine law and fiction writing.

Awards by Viola Canales

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2006


Pura Belpré Award for Writing
Honored for : The Tequila Worm

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pura Belpré Award for Writing The Tequila Worm