Published Works of Rudolfo Anaya

Bless Me, Ultima is Rudolfo Anaya's first novel, written around 1970 and published in 1972.

Heart of Aztlán is the second novel in a trilogy begun with Bless Me, Ultima and concluded with Tortuga.

This is Anaya's third novel, in which he utilizes his own childhood experience of being temporarily crippled in a swimming accident to create a semi-ficitonal story.

A short novel published in 1984, in which Anaya reconstructs the famous story of La Llorona, delving into the tale's historical origins, mythological powers, and communal functio

Lord of the Dawn is Anaya's exploration of the cosmology and the rich and complex spiritual thought of his Native American ancestors.

"Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family. . . .

This is the first mystery novel in the Sonny Baca Series, published in 1995.

In this short novel, Anaya experiments with a new style of writing: a New Age parable.

Sonny Baca Series, v.3. A mystery fantasy on PI Sonny Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he tries to outwit the evil spirit, Raven.

A novella that features Hispanic and Native American folk stores told by the fictional character, Serafina.

Sonny Baca Series, v.4.

Readers acquainted with Anaya's fiction will find themselves in familiar territory here. Randy Lopez, like all Anaya's protagonists, is on a spiritual quest.

A collection of stories by the renowned New Mexico author, Rudolfo Anaya. - Worldcat

A collection of short stories published in 2006.

Richly colored full-page paintings show a Chicano family that is part of a New Mexico community.

Anaya's adaptation of the legend of La Llorona into a children's book. La Llorona, or the crying woman, is a legend known in many forms and versions across Latin America.

Readers again meet Luz and her grandfather, introduced in The Farolitos of Christmas (Hyperion, 1995), shortly before he passes away.

A collection of ten original and traditional stories set in New Mexico, including "Lupe and la Llorona," "The Shepherd Who Knew the Language of Animals," and "Coyote and Raven." --UNM Library

Chicano novelist Rudolfo Anaya was greatly influenced by the heroic life of labor and civil rights activist César Chávez.

In this original folkloric tale, Desert Woman creates "a new animal," with input from the existing desert creatures, to stand up to Rattlesnake, the self-styled "king of the road." She gathers clay

Andrés's grandpa Don Jacobo is a master santero, a carver of wooden saints, and the 10-year-old helps him make a statue of San Isidro during his holiday break from school.

The legendary ChupaCabra, the goatsucker, is set loose in the streets, like the meth that is destroying its young victims' minds. --from book's flap

A bilingual retelling of a traditional Mexican folktale about the making of tortillas.

This fast-paced mystery expands the ChupaCabra folklore into a metaphor that deals with the new powers inherent in science. --from book's flap

How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico is a fanciful folk tale that helps explain the beautiful flowers that can be seen in all parts of the Southwest in the summer and fall.

Anaya’s reflections, as shared through the experiences of this old man, point to the power and importance of love at every stage of life.

Selections from the first Rio Grande Writers Conference, published in 1976.

An English and Spanish rewriting of selections from J.B. Rael's Cuentos españoles de Colorado y Nuevo México. --from the UNM Library

An anthology of stories commemorating the pueblo revolt of 1680.

A collection of twenty-one short stories in English and Spanish that demonstrate the changes and developments that have occured in the Chicano literary tradition over the last twenty years.

A collection of writings by different authors from New Mexico, edited by Rudolfo Anaya.

Anaya's travelogue, written on his trip to China in 1984.

Rudolfo Anaya has contributed the intoduction to this publication by the Hispanic Culture Foundation, which celebrates the art, architecture, literature, and other cultural traditions in New Mexico

With prose by Rudolfo Anaya, poetry by Denise Chavez, and photography by Juan Estevan Arellano, this volume reflects on the New Mexican tradition of erecting white cross altars on sideroads to come

"This volume includes 16 essays written by Latino male writers discussing how they see themselves in relation to society's concept of adult manhood.

An anthology of selections from Rudolfo Anaya's various published works, including  excerpts from Bless Me Ulima, Turtuga, and Zia Summer, as well as poems, plays, a

A collection of essays by Rudolfo Anaya that address a wide range of issues, including censorship, racism, education, and sexual politics, as well as the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.

A collection of plays written by rudolfo Anaya, including The season of La Llorona, The farolitos of Christmas, Who killed Don José?, Matachines, Ay, compadre!, Billy the Kid, and Ang

A mock-epic in narrative poetry in which Rudolfo Anaya reimagines the history of the Southwest mixing ancient and contemporary lore.

A collection of essays discussing the concept of Aztlan, the mythological homeland of the Chicano movement.

"These 25 eminently readable stories by New Mexicans, many anthologized for the first time, reflect the heterogeneity of the state and its residents; alike only in that each expresses a unique resp

A collection of poems written over a few decades. This book showcases Anaya's skill as a poet as well as a fiction writer.