Chicano poet - He graduated from California State University, Long Beach, and Stanford University. In 1982 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico City. He taught at the University of California, Davis. Alarcón wrote poetry in English, Spanish and Nahuatl.
Francisco X. Alarcón is survived by his partner of over two decades, Javier Pinzón, who he married during the California legal window for gay marriage in 2008, as well as his mother, two sisters, four brothers, nine nieces and nephews and the many students fortunate enough to take his classes at the Santa Cruz and Davis campuses of the University of California.
Awards
1981 Ruben Dario Prize for poetry.
1984 Chicano Literary Prize for poetry.
1993 American Book Award
1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association
1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships
2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA)
'I've Come Somehow
From Somewhere
To Nowhere
To This Edge
Where Dreams
Abruptly End' - Francisco Alarcón
Francisco X. Alarcón is survived by his partner of over two decades, Javier Pinzón, who he married during the California legal window for gay marriage in 2008, as well as his mother, two sisters, four brothers, nine nieces and nephews and the many students fortunate enough to take his classes at the Santa Cruz and Davis campuses of the University of California.
Awards
1981 Ruben Dario Prize for poetry.
1984 Chicano Literary Prize for poetry.
1993 American Book Award
1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association
1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships
2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA)
'I've Come Somehow
From Somewhere
To Nowhere
To This Edge
Where Dreams
Abruptly End' - Francisco Alarcón
Chicano poet - He graduated from California State University, Long Beach, and Stanford University. In 1982 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico City. He taught at the University of California, Davis. Alarcón wrote poetry in English, Spanish and Nahuatl.
Francisco X. Alarcón is survived by his partner of over two decades, Javier Pinzón, who he married during the California legal window for gay marriage in 2008, as well as his mother, two sisters, four brothers, nine nieces and nephews and the many students fortunate enough to take his classes at the Santa Cruz and Davis campuses of the University of California.
Awards
1981 Ruben Dario Prize for poetry.
1984 Chicano Literary Prize for poetry.
1993 American Book Award
1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association
1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships
2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA)
'I've Come Somehow
From Somewhere
To Nowhere
To This Edge
Where Dreams
Abruptly End' - Francisco Alarcón
Francisco X. Alarcón is survived by his partner of over two decades, Javier Pinzón, who he married during the California legal window for gay marriage in 2008, as well as his mother, two sisters, four brothers, nine nieces and nephews and the many students fortunate enough to take his classes at the Santa Cruz and Davis campuses of the University of California.
Awards
1981 Ruben Dario Prize for poetry.
1984 Chicano Literary Prize for poetry.
1993 American Book Award
1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association
1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships
2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA)
'I've Come Somehow
From Somewhere
To Nowhere
To This Edge
Where Dreams
Abruptly End' - Francisco Alarcón
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