Latino Award-winning Creator, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Lifeless at 93

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Lifeless at 93

Romeo Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, an internationally regarded author, poet, and essayist who exploited his existence within the Texas Rio Grande Valley to provide a group of award-winning novels, has died, in line with his family members. He was 93.

Hinojosa, who died Tuesday, was best regarded for his “Klail City Loss of life Journey” collection about day by day life and the individuals in fictional Belken County and Klail Metropolis.

Hinojosa-Smith was honored by the Countrywide Reserve Critics Circle with its 2013 Ivan Sandrof Life span Achievement Award.

“He was a author’s writer,” remarked John Morán González, a College of Texas at Austin professor of American and English Literature and a colleague.

He earned his PhD from the College of Illinois in 1969 and been given the Alumni Accomplishment Award from the Illinois Alumni Affiliation in 1998. The college’s Latino/Latina Scientific exams Division renamed its customer lecture collection for him in 2006.

“He was a prolific and award-successful writer whose books had viewers all in extra of the world,” Clarissa Hinojosa wrote on social media. “His writing constructed him a standard customer lecturer at universities all through the Americas, in Europe, the Heart East and Southeast Asia.”