NEW YORK (AP) — Writer Sandra Cisneros is that this 12 months’s winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring writers who assist foster “understanding between and amongst individuals.”
Cisneros, finest recognized for her million-selling novel “The Home on Mango Avenue,” has typically drawn upon her Mexican heritage and her childhood neighborhood in her personal work and supported different writers by her nonprofits the Macondo Basis and the Alfredo Cisneros del Ethical Basis.
The Holbrooke award, named for the late U.S. diplomat, is introduced by the Ohio-based Dayton Literary Peace Prize Basis. In 1995, Holbrooke helped dealer the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian Battle, a battle Cisneros has considered typically.
“I witnessed a struggle’s results personally with the 40-year friendship of my hermana-amiga (sister-friend) from Sarajevo. And what I realized was this; the casualties of a struggle usually are not merely these killed in warfare. Civilians and unborn generations ever after undergo with the shrapnel of that battle embedded of their psyche like hidden landmines. I simply returned from Sarajevo, and I do know that is true,” Cisneros stated in an announcement.
“The repercussions of the Bosnian Battle have formed me as each a author and a human being. I’ve aspired in my life to attempt for unity. I’m enormously gratified to be honored with a prize specializing in peace.”
The Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, will interview Cisneros on stage throughout a Nov. 12 ceremony in Dayton. Earlier recipients of the Holbrooke award embody Elie Wiesel, Margaret Atwood and Louise Erdrich.