"Writing is hard and it calls for honesty" : an interview with Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

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Gábor Tillman

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Novelist, poet, and educator Rolando R. Hinojosa-Smith was born January 21, 1929, in Mercedes, Texas. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1969. Known for a series of novels set in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Hinojosa-Smith won Quinto Sol Award for Literature in 1972 for Estampas del Valle y otras obras, and the Premio Casa de las Americas in 1976 for his Klail City y sus alrededores. He is professor of creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Tillman, Gábor. 2013. “‘Writing Is Hard and It Calls for Honesty’ : An Interview With Rolando Hinojosa-Smith”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 9 (1). https://www.americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45201.
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Gábor Tillman

Gabor Tillman is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pecs. His field of research includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and popular culture. The dissertation he is currently working on explores issues related to the autobiographical and performed identity of nineteenth-century frontier heroes. Email: gabortillman@gmail.com