George Rabasa is an American

United States

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 writer and author

Author

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 of four novels and a short story collection. Rabasa has received such honors as The Loft Career Initiative Grant, The Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award, and two Minnesota Book Awards

Minnesota Book Awards

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Background

Rabasa was born December 29, 1941 in Biddeford, Maine

Biddeford, Maine

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. In 1964 he earned a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the University of the Americas, Mexico D.F./Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, with a double major in English literature

English literature

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 and Journalism

Journalism

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Novels

• The Wonder Singer (Unbridled Books, 2008)
• The Cleansing (The Permanent Press, 2006)
• Floating Kingdom (Coffee House Press, 1997)

Short stories

• Glass Houses (Coffee House Press, 1996).

Selected by A.M. Homes for the Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in Fiction

Anthologies

• “Family Lines”, A Ghost at Heart's Edge, North Atlantic Books, 1999.
• “Jimmy Pearl's Blue Oyster”, 26 Minnesota Writers, Nodin Press, 1995.

Journals

• “Yolanda by Day”, American Literary Review, 2003.
• “Fallen Coconuts and Dead Fish”, Green Hills, 2003.
• “Ask Señor Totol”, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2002-2003.
• “Hay Soos Saves”, North Dakota Quarterly, 2002.
• “For the Solitary Soul”, South Carolina Review, 2001.
• “Three Incidents in the Early Life of El Perro”, Atlanta Review, 2001.
• “The Beautiful Wife”, Glimmer Train Stories, 1995.

Awards

• The Loft Literary Center Career Initiative Grant, 2008
• A BookSense Notable Book Selection, The Cleansing, 2006
• Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Fellowship, 2001
• Minnesota Book Award for Novel, Floating Kingdom, 1998
• Minnesota Book Award for Short Fiction, Glass Houses, 1997
• The Writers Voice Capricorn Award, Excellence in Fiction, 1992

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