The Department of Bicultural Bilingual Studies (BBL) is once again calling for nominations for the 2022 Premio Campoy-Ada, a national award for children’s and young adult books in Spanish sponsored by the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and UTSA. The award was conceived in 2017 by both Professor Howard Smith of the BBL Department and award-winning authors and ANLE board members, Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy. Currently the award is overseen by Isabel Campoy and Professor and chair of the BBL Department, Patricia Sánchez.

“ANLE is honored by its association with UTSA and the goals the university has outlined for students and the community at large,” Campoy said.

The Premio Campoy-Ada is awarded every two years for children’s or young adult’s Spanish literature that is published within the U.S. and Puerto Rico in the last three years leading up to the nomination. Nominations are being accepted until December 31, 2022 with winners to be announced in February, 2023. Books will be reviewed by ten judges: five from ANLE and five from UTSA. Sánchez plans to include professors, a graduate student, an alumna, and a community member among the UTSA judges.

This year the competition has reduced selections to ten categories including children, youth, and young adult, non-fiction, biographies, and poetry. Also new for this year’s competition is a special section for graduate students studying children’s literature. Those students will adapt their favorite English book into Spanish and have the chance to submit their work. If all goes according to plan, Campoy and Sánchez hope that the winning adaptations might get picked up by a publisher.

For more information visit https://education.utsa.edu/news/2022/call-for-submission-premio-campoy-ada.html