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Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

エヴァンジェリナ・ヴィジル=ピニョン

Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1949-11-29 (San Antonio, Texas, U.S.)
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
San Antonio, Texas (birthplace) → Houston, Texas (professional residence)

経歴

職業
poet, children's book author, novelist, director, translator, television personality, adjunct lecturer
活動期間
1978年〜
所属
Assistant editor, Americas Review, Adjunct lecturer, University of Houston, ABC-KTRK TV Channel 13 (television journalist/community affairs)

学歴

Prairie View A&M University
国: United States
Entered on a scholarship for business administration
University of Houston
国: United States
Listed as having graduated (citation needed in sources)
St. Mary's University (Texas)
国: United States
Studied there (details unspecified)
University of Texas at San Antonio
国: United States
Studied there (details unspecified)

受賞歴

American Book Award
1983
結果: winner
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: Fellow

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Nade y Nade

1978年 Poetry

A collection of poems addressing Chicana experience, family and cultural memory.

Chicana identityfamilymemory

Thirty an' Seen a Lot

1982年 Poetry/Prose

A collection containing short poems and prose that recount community and personal experiences.

communitymemoryimmigrant experience

The Computer is Down

1987年 Fiction

A set of short fictional pieces that weave in aspects of technology and contemporary life.

contemporary lifetechnologycommunity

Marina's Muumuu / El muumuu de Marina

2001年 Children's book (picture book)

A bilingual picture book illustrated for children that depicts culture and clothing from a child's perspective.

children's literatureculturebilingualism

Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Women Write (editor)

1987年 Anthology (editor)

An edited anthology collecting works by Hispanic women writers.

womenHispanic literatureanthology

全著作

  • Nade y Nade (1978)
  • Thirty an' Seen a Lot (1982)
  • The Computer is Down (1987)
  • Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Women Write (ed., 1987)
  • Decade II: an anniversary anthology (co-editor, 1993)
  • Marina's Muumuu / El muumuu de Marina (2001)
  • Translator: Tomás Rivera, Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995)
  • Translator: Tito Campos, Muffler man (2001)

作品の翻訳

  • Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Tomás Rivera; translated by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón)
  • Muffler man (Tito Campos; translated by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón)

作風・主題

文体
colloquial and approachable voicerooted in Chicana poetic traditionscommunity-centered perspective
頻出モチーフ
familymemorymigration/bordersbilingualism

評価・遺産

Evangelina Vigil-Piñón is an important figure in Chicana and Hispanic American literature as a writer, editor and translator; her work in children's literature and community-focused television journalism has also had regional impact.

豆知識

  • Born in San Antonio, Texas; maternal family emigrated from Parras, Mexico.
  • Attended Inman Christian Center from sixth grade and developed an early interest in literature.
  • Served as assistant editor of Americas Review.
  • Has taught Mexican American and U.S. Hispanic literature as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Houston.
  • Worked as a television journalist involved in community affairs for ABC-KTRK in Houston.