Margarita Engle - Awards & Nominations

Profession	Poet, Journalist, Novelist, Botanist, Educator
Margarita Engle is a Cuban American author. In 2009, she was awarded the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino for The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom.

Awards by Margarita Engle

Check all the awards nominated and won by Margarita Engle.

2009

Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children

Honored for : The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Pura Belpré Award for Writing

Honored for : The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children	The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
John Newbery Medal	The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Pura Belpré Award for Writing	The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

2008

Pura Belpré Award for Writing

Honored for : The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography in Poems of Juan Francisco Manzano

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pura Belpré Award for Writing	The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography in Poems of Juan Francisco Manzano

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