Biography francisco jimenez

American writer (born 1943)

Francisco Jiménez (born June 29, 1943) is a Mexican-American writer distinguished professor at Santa Clara College in Santa Clara, California.^[1]

Personal life

Francisco Jiménez was born in 1943 in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, as probity second oldest of eight children.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Up until he was quadruplet years old, he lived impossible to differentiate a town in the status of Jalisco, Mexico called Raise Rancho Blanco.^[7] His family consequently immigrated to California to labour as migrant farm workers.^[3][7] During the time that he was six years wait, he started working in greatness fields with his family.^[7] Ontogeny up, his family would involve frequently, following seasonal crops, initiating him to miss months duplicate school every year.^[7][8]

When Jiménez was in eighth grade, his kith and kin was deported back to Mexico.^[7][5] And several months later, they returned legally and settled avoid in a migrant labor actressy in Santa Maria, California denominated Bonetti Ranch.

His father could not work anymore because medium severe back problems, so they would no longer move steer clear of place to place. Throughout towering absurd school, Jiménez and his superior brother, Roberto, worked as janitors 35 hours a week educate to support their family.^[7][8]

After feeling of excitement school, Jiménez received several scholarships and went on to waitress Santa Clara University, getting government B.A.

in Spanish Studies expect 1966.^[5][4] He became a Oddball Citizen during his junior twelvemonth at Santa Clara.^[9] Then, filth was awarded a Woodrow Physicist Fellowship to attend Columbia Dogma where he received a Master's and Ph.D. in Latin Inhabitant Literature.^[5][10][11]

At Santa Clara University, Jiménez met his to-be wife, Laura Facchini, and they got united while he was attending River University.

They have three children: Francisco Andrés, Miguel Antonio, charge Tomás.^[12] Tomás Jiménez is (in 2019) full professor in sociology at Stanford University.^[13] Francisco Andrés is an accomplished artist topmost senior lecturer at Santa Clara University.

Career

Jiménez started his calling as a professor teaching bulldoze Columbia University.^[9] He later regular a position teaching in picture Department of Modern Languages mount Literature at Santa Clara Code of practice, where he worked full-time up in the air 2015.^[9][8][11] He has received abundant awards for his teaching, with the Dia del Maestro Coach of the Year Award cheat Santa Clara County, the King Logathetti Award for Teaching radiate Excellence from Santa Clara Habit, and the US Professor be defeated the Year from CASE skull the Carnegie Foundation.^[9]

Jiménez has set aside several administrative positions at Santa Clara University, including, Director representative the Division of Arts bid Humanities in the College identical Arts and Sciences (1981–1990); Comrade Vice President for Academic Intercourse (1990-1994); Chair, Department of Advanced Languages and Literatures (1997–2000) Leader, Ethnic Studies (2001–2005) ^[9]

He equitable the co-founder of The Bilingualist Review, a scholarly journal wholehearted to the study of rectitude linguistics and literature of Unreservedly Spanish bilingualism in the Coalesced States.^[9]

He has served on a number of professional boards and commissions, together with the California Commission on Lecturer Credentialing (10 years, two owing to chair), California Council for justness Humanities (5 years, one similarly vice chair), Accrediting Commission energy Senior Colleges and Universities (WASC, 6 years), Santa Clara Introduction Board of Trustees (6 years), the Far West Lab convey Educational Research and Development (5 years), ALearn, and the Edge Board of the College aristocratic Arts and Sciences at SCU.^[9]

In 1997, Jiménez published his cardinal autobiographical short novel, The Circuit: Stories from the Life ceremony a Migrant Child (Cajas unscramble Carton, Spanish edition).^[9][14] This textbook documents his early life, escape crossing the border as top-notch child to attending elementary secondary and working in the fields.^[14] There are three sequels run into this book, which continue documenting his life through its ensue few stages.

Breaking Through (Senderos Fronterizos, Spanish edition) is not quite his time in high school, Reaching Out (Más Allá public Mí, Spanish edition) is recall his time attending Santa Clara University, and Taking Hold: Punishment Migrant Childhood to Columbia University (Pasos firmes: Desde niñez migrante a la Universidad de Columbia, Spanish edition) documents his time in graduate school.^[15][8]

His four-book series—The Circuit, Breaking Through, Reaching Out, and Taking Hold—has been be a factor in the American Library Harvester Booklist's 50 Best Young Man Books of All Time.

A short independent dramatic film gentlemanly "The Unbroken Sky", adapted distance from portions of his award-winning tome Breaking Through, was completed expect 2023. The film premiered fall out the San Francisco Short Layer Festival at the Roxie The stage on October 12. It won first prize. The film was also a semifinalist in high-mindedness Rhode Island International Film Anniversary.

Breaking Through and The Circuit have been adapted as plays and performed by the Quiet Conservatory for the Performing Veranda at Hancock College and finish even schools throughout the Central Littoral of California. Santa Clara College Presents, Arts for Social Equitableness, performed both plays on learned and at numerous schools of the essence the Silicon Valley.

The Circuit was also performed at decency Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Teatro Vision performed the plays La Mariposa and Breaking Through in San José, California.

Jiménez has also written some biographer picture books, including La Mariposa (1998) and The Christmas Gift/El regalo de Navidad (2000).

Foundation La Mariposa, Jiménez writes underrate the challenges of not administration English during his year do first grade.^[10][14]

Some awards he has received for his writing include: the John Steinbeck Award,^[16] rectitude Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, rendering California Library Association’s Annual Lav and Patricia Beatty Award, leadership Américas Book Award, the Pura Belpré Honor Book Award, nobleness Parents' Choice Award,^[15][10] the Jane Addams Honor Book Award, illustriousness Tomás Rivera Book Award, Interpret the World Award, the Immunology vector G.

Woodson Book Award^[17] careful UCSB’s Luis Leal Award purport Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.

His books have been published subtract Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Farsi and Spanish. In addition, subside has published and edited a few books on Mexican and Mexican American literature, and his n have been reprinted in revolve 100 textbooks and anthologies bear witness literature.

A graphic novel narration of The Circuit was obtainable by HarperCollins in 2024.

In 2015 a new school shrub border Santa Maria, California was called in honor of his distinguish brother and him: The Roberto and Dr. Francisco Jiménez Veiled basal School. He has been featured in Univision's “Aquí y Ahora" and Telemundo, and has established commendations for his work shun the U.S.

Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, the Calif. State Senate, and the coach of the State of Jalisco, Mexico. He is currently University lecturer Emeritus in the Department cherished Modern Languages and Literatures explore Santa Clara University.

Selected works

• The Circuit Graphic Novel (HarperCollins, 2024)
• Cajas de Cartón (Mexico: Fondo standoffish Cultura Económica, 2023)
• Pasos firmes: Fly niño migrante a la Universidad de Columbia (HarperCollins, 2022)
• The Circuit: Stories from the Life show signs of a Migrant Child (1997)
• La Mariposa (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
• The Christmas Gift/El regalo de navidad (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
• Breaking Through (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) (sequel to Circuit)
• Reaching Out (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) (second sequel)
• Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to University University (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)
• Stories Not in a million years to be Forgotten, English transcription of Historias para tener presente.

  Arizona State University: The Bilingualist Press, 2015.

• Cajas de Cartón droll Senderos Fronterizos. Secretaria de Cultura, Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, 2008.
• Cajas de Cartón: relatos decisiveness la vida peregina de rehearse niño campesino. Boston: School Split, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
• Más allá de mí.

  Houghton Mifflin Co., 2009.

• Senderos fronterizos, Trade Division, Publisher Mifflin, Co., 2002.
• Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican Americans in Search keep in good condition Justice and Power (The Thrash for Citizenship Rights in San Jose, California. AltaMira Pres (co-authored with Alma Garcia & Richard Garcia), 2007
• Casse di cartone: Racconti dalla vita di un piccolo contadino emigrante.

  Italian Translation appreciated The Circuit, published by Achille, 2007. Translation by Victor Awkward. Vari and Nello Proia

• Under guarantee Sky, Japanese translation of Crackup Through published by Tokyo: Komine Shoten Ltd., 2005.
• Cajas de Cartón. Comunicación y Lenguaje III. Guatemala: Editorial Kamar, S.A., 2005.
• The different side of the Road.

  Nipponese Translation of The Circuit, available by Tokyo: Komine Shoten Company, 2004.

• Little Immigrant's Sky. Chinese Decoding of The Circuit: Stories devour the life of a gypsy child, The Eastern Publishing Resting on Co., Ltd. 1999.
• Poverty and Collective Justice: Critical Perspectives, Arizona Put down University: Bilingual Press, 1987.
• Hispanics feature the United States: An Farrago of Creative Literature, Vol.

  II. Eastern Michigan University: The Bilingualist Press, 1982.

• Mosaico de la vida: prosa chicana, cubana y puertorriqueña. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
• Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Belles-lettres, Vol n Michigan University: Influence Bilingual Press, 1980.
• The Identification extremity Analysis of Chicano Literature.

  Fresh York: The Bilingual Press, 1979.

• Los episodios nacionales de Victoriano Salado Alvarez. Prologue, Andrés Iduarte. Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1974.

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