Francisco Laguna Correa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Francisco Laguna-Correa is a Mexican writer, who resides in the United States. He is the author of the awarded books "Finales felices" and "Diógenes from the Wild North".
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Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
About Francisco Laguna Correa
- Francisco Laguna Correa (also known as "Franco Laguna Correa") is a writer, ethnographer, and college professor.
- He was awarded in 2012 the National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an institution based in New York City.
- In 2013, he received the International Poetry Prize of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes.
- In 2016, Laguna Correa was one of the recipients of The Fuerza Award, a social recognition for his intellectual activism in the Pittsburgh area granted by The City of Pittsburgh, the collective Café con Leche, and The Latin American Cultural Union (LACU).
- The Chicago Review of Books recommended his book Crush Me (a broken novel) for the 2017 National Poetry Month.
- His novel Wild North was included in the list of best Mexican fiction of 2017 selected by author Antonio Ortuño and published in the daily newspaper El Informador.
- He has been invited to deliver talks about his research at various institutions, including Emory University, the University of California, Texas State University, and Duke University.
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