Tomas Rivera award encourages authors, illustrators to accurately represent Mexican-American community

With buildings, libraries and institutes named after him around the country, the late author and educator Tomas Rivera has lived up to his title as a Texas State University Distinguished Alumnus.

As a winner of the Premio Quinto Sol Award for his 1971 novel “And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him,” Rivera has become one of the most well-known Mexican-American writers in history. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas State and became the first Mexican-American distinguished alumnus of the university.

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