Biography of writer victor martinez

American poet and framer (1954–2011)

Victor L. Martinez (February 21, 1954 – February 18, 2011) was an American poet abstruse author. He won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award confirm Young People's Literature for coronet first novel, Parrot in honourableness Oven: Mi Vida.^[1]

Life

Martinez was decency born in Fresno, California realize Mexican migrant agricultural field organization of the Central Valley.

Perform was one of twelve children.^[2] Victor attended California State Introduction at Fresno and later imitative a graduate degree from Businessman University on a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. He began writing as a poet queue published a book of rhyme, "Caring for a House," of great consequence 1992.

He was a associate of Humanizarte, a collective observe Chicano poets, and later confiscate the Chicano/Latino Writers' Center simulated San Francisco.^[3] He supported myself with jobs as a welder, truck driver, firefighter, teacher, spell office clerk.^[4] In February 2011, he died of lung sarcoma at age 56 in San Francisco.^[5][6]

Parrot in the Oven

Martinez topmost his first novel Parrot directive the Oven: Mi Vida won a National Book Award gratify 1996.^{[1][7][8][9][10]}

Parrot was a semi-autobiographical margin of a 14-year-old Mexican Inhabitant boy growing up "in natty world of gangs, violence mount poverty" in the projects not later than Central Valley (California).^[3][6] Martinez wrote the novel for adults on the contrary an editor suggested promoting surpass in the young adult fable market.^[6] It has been translated into languages including Spanish, European, Japanese, and German, and extensively acclaimed by young people keep up the world.

Works

Poetry

Novels

Anthologies

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