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Luis Omar Salinas was born on 24 June, 1937 in Robstown, Texas, is a poet. Discover Luis Omar Salinas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Occupation Author poet professor
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June 1937
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace Robstown, Texas
Date of death (2008-05-25) Sanger, California, United States
Died Place Sanger, California, United States
Nationality United States

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2008

Salinas dropped out of college and supported his writing through most of his life by doing various jobs. Toward the end of his life he returned to California State University Fresno, where he taught poetry. He died on May 25, 2008, in Sanger, California.

1980

Salinas has won the Earl Lyon Award for poetry writing from Fresno State University (1980), and the Stanley Kunitz award from Columbia Magazine at Columbia University for his poem "Letter Too Late To Vallejo" (1982). In 1984, he received an award from the General Electric Foundation, and in 1985 he was invited to read his poetry at the Library of Congress with Sandra Cisneros.

1937

Luis Omar Salinas (1937–2008) was a leading Chicano poet who published a number of well-received collections of poetry, including the Crazy Gypsy, which has been described as "a classic of contemporary and Chicano poetry", I Go Dreaming Serenades, and Afternoon of The Unreal. He was awarded the Stanley Kunitz award by Columbia Magazine for one of his poems, and a General Electric Foundation Award. Salinas is regarded as "one of the founding fathers of Chicano poetry in America," with many of his poems being "canonized in U.S. Hispanic literature."

Born on June 24, 1937, in Robstown, Texas, Salomies father, Rosendo Valdez Salinas, was a second generation Mexicano-Tejano. Salinas was raised under poor circumstances in Robstown until, as a teenager, he moved with his family to California.