(1972) in guidance and counseling from the same institution. In 1966 he married Patricia Lawless, who is also trained in guidance and counseling. From 1963 to 1970 Anaya taught in the Albuquerque public schools. He left to become director of counseling at the University of Albuquerque. His current appointment in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico began in 1974. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Albuquerque, the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence, and the President's National Salute to American Poets and Writers in 1980. Perhaps the most important of his honors is the Premio Quinto Sol awarded to
Bless Me, Ultima , for it was his first national literary honor and a harbinger of later recognition, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Chicano Council of Higher Education, and a Kellogg Fellowship.
To read Anaya's work is to encounter a preoccupation with, as he describes it (MELUS, Spring 1984), "instinct and the dark blood in which it dwells." The bringing of instinct to light is both an artistic and a moral imperative for Anaya, who perceives the writer's role in shamanistic terms.
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