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Graciela Limón

|birth_place=East Los Angeles, California, U.S. |occupation=Novelist |education=Marymount College
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |awards=American Book Award (1994)
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2002) }} Graciela Limón (born August 2, 1938, Los Angeles) is a Latina/Chicana novelist and a former university professor. She has been honored with an American Book Award and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.

Limón has written critical work on Mexican, Latin American and Caribbean literature. She now concentrates her writing efforts on creative fiction that is germane to her areas of interest: feminism, social justice and cultural identity.

Her body of work includes ''In Search of Bernabé'', which won The Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1994). Limón also published ''The Memories of Ana Calderón'' (1994), ''Song of the Hummingbird'' (1996) and ''The Day of the Moon'' (1999). ''Erased Faces'', which was awarded the 2002 Gustavus Myers Book Award, was published in 2001; ''Left Alive'' was released in 2005; ''The River Flows North'' in 2009, and ''The Madness of Mamá Carlota'' in 2012. Her latest book is ''The Intriguing Life of Ximena Godoy'', published by Cafe con Leche Books. Provided by Wikipedia