George Rabasa
George Anthony Rabasa is an American writer and author 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.Background
Rabasa was born December 29, 1941 in Biddeford, Maine to Catalan refugees. He was raised in Mexico City.
In 1964 he earned a B.A. from the University of the Americas in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, with a double major in English literature and Journalism..
He currently lives in the State of Minnesota.Partial bibliography
Novels
- The Wonder Singer
- The Cleansing
- Floating Kingdom
Short stories
- Glass Houses.
Selected by A.M. Homes for the Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in FictionAnthologies
- “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
