Acclaimed author Ana Castillo will be awarded the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for her lifetime achievement as an author, activist, educator, and scholar.
For Ana Castillo, a Chicagoan known for her work as an author, educator, poet and activist, home is where her books are. Which, given the pandemic, means a home in the most southern point of New Mexico. Castillo was back in her hometown Thursday night to receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’sInspired by the works of author Henry Blake Fuller, the award is given to a Chicago author who has made an outstanding lifetime contribution to literature.
Author Ana Castillo gives a speech after receiving the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's Fuller Award during a ceremony on March 24, 2022. With Xicanisma, I was attempting at the time to assert an identity that existed. Sandra Cisneros and I were reading together in Chicago for many, many years. And we would laugh when people would say ‘oh two Chicanas, searching for their identity,’ wherever we would go. We weren’t searching for an identity, we knew our identity. We were asserting that identity. That’s what Xicanisma was trying to do at that point, to say: This is who we are. We’re complex.
[Most read] ‘The energy of migration has been very high.’ What’s behind the population dip in Chicago, other big US cities?Q: You often write in English and Spanish in the same story without translating. Are readers more accepting of that today than when you first started out as a writer? A: In 2016, I was in shock, like so many, about the results of the election, I went into this dark place and by 2017, I had told myself there was no point in writing anymore. And how I was expressing myself was with drawing journals that I had laying around. ... I started drawing with Sharpie pens, and using various color pens and watercolor, and so on. While I was not writing, I was expressing myself in a million different ways. I have hundreds of drawings. Some of them I have sold.
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