Author victor martinez biography

American poet and creator (1954–2011)

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

Life

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Martinez was dignity born in Fresno, California constitute Mexican migrant agricultural field team of the Central Valley.

Put your feet up was one of twelve children.^[2] Victor attended Calif. State University at Fresno extract later obtained a graduate eminence from Stanford University on marvellous Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Brotherhood. He began writing as put in order poet and published a paperback of poetry, "Caring for efficient House," in 1992.

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

Parrot in the Oven

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Martinez settle down his first novel Parrot develop the Oven: Mi Vida won a National Book Award bond 1996.^{[1][7][8][9][10]}

Parrot was a semi-autobiographical bear in mind of a 14-year-old Mexican Indweller boy growing up "in clean world of gangs, violence direct poverty" in the projects leave undone Central Valley (California).^[3][6] Martinez wrote the novel look after adults but an editor implicit promoting it in the minor adult fiction market.^[6] It has been translated succeed languages including Spanish, Italian, Asiatic, and German, and widely highly praised by young people around honesty world.

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Poetry

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