Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez is an American author of children's books, best known for her middle grade contemporary debut The Smell of Old Lady Perfume. Her works include middle grade fiction, young adult fiction, and picture books.

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Occupationnovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Home townEl Paso, Texas, U.S.
Genreyoung adult fiction, middle grade fiction
Notable worksThe Smell of Old Lady Perfume
Notable awardsTexas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book Award
Years active2008-now
Website
www.claudiaguadalupemartinez.com

Personal life

Martinez grew up in El Paso, Texas.[1] She started wanting to become a writer when she was six years old.[2]

Her father passed away when she was eleven, an experience which she drew inspiration from for what would become her debut novel, The Smell of Old Lady Perfume.[2]

She now lives in Chicago.[1]

Career

The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

Her debut novel, a middle grade contemporary titled The Smell of Old Lady Perfume, was published with Cinco Puntos Press in 2008.[2] She wrote the first draft of the novel shortly before moving to Chicago and says that as somebody from El Paso, she grew up admiring the also El Paso-based publisher.[2] When she first submitted the novel to the publisher, she received helpful feedback, but was ultimately declined.[2] The novel is about Chela, a middle schooler whose father who has a stroke and subsequently dies and about how she deals with the loss of a parent.[2]

The novel went on to win the 2009 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People,[3] 2008 Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book Award,[4] and a 2009 Americas Award Commendation.[5]

Pig Park

Her next novel, Pig Park, is about Masi, a teenager who moves to Pig Park, a neighborhood in real-life Chicago, and builds a pyramid to garner tourist interest to raise money for her parents' failing bakery.[6] It was published by Cinco Puntos Press in September 2014 and the novel won a 2015 Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book Award[4] and a 2015 NAACS Tejas Foco Best YA Fiction Award,[7] in addition to receiving a starred review from VOYA magazine.

Not a Bean

Her first picture book, Not a Bean, illustrated by Laura Gonzalez, was published by Charlesbridge in 2019.[8]

gollark: Or probably weapon attacks at all.
gollark: Or any time, really.
gollark: There would be no photon torpedoes at this time.
gollark: ```Cold Ones (also ice giants, the Finality, Lords of the Last Waste)Mythological beings who dwell at the end of time, during the final blackness of the universe, the last surviving remnants of the war of all-against-all over the universe’s final stocks of extropy, long after the passing of baryonic matter and the death throes of the most ancient black holes. Savage, autocannibalistic beings, stretching their remaining existence across aeons-long slowthoughts powered by the rare quantum fluctuations of the nothingness, these wretched dead gods know nothing but despair, hunger, and envy for those past entities which dwelled in eras rich in energy differentials, information, and ordered states, and would – if they could – feast on any unwary enough to fall into their clutches.Stories of the Cold Ones are, of course, not to be interpreted literally: they are a philosophical and theological metaphor for the pessimal end-state of the universe, to wit, the final triumph of entropy in both a physical and a spiritual sense. Nonetheless, this metaphor has been adopted by both the Flamic church and the archai themselves to describe the potential future which it is their intention to avert.The Cold Ones have also found a place in popular culture, depicted as supreme villains: perhaps best seen in the Ghosts of the Dark Spiral expansion for Mythic Stars, a virtuality game from Nebula 12 ArGaming, ICC, and the Void Cascading InVid series, produced by Dexlyn Vithinios (Sundogs of Delphys, ICC).```
gollark: And it's all just horribly dense spaghetti code.

References
  1. "About Me". www.claudiaguadalupemartinez.com. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  2. Lainez, Rene Colato (October 1, 2008). "La Bloga: Interview With Author Claudia Guadalupe Martínez". La Bloga. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  3. hannahehrlich (June 9, 2009). "Paterson Prize for Books for Young People". Lee & Low Blog. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  4. "Texas Institute of Letters: Literary Awards". www.texasinstituteofletters.org. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  5. "Books". www.claudiaguadalupemartinez.com. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  6. "Children's Book Review: Pig Park by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez. Cinco Puntos (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-935955-76-4". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  7. "NACCS - Tejas Foco". www.naccs.org. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  8. www.fullcircleliterary.com https://www.fullcircleliterary.com/claudia-guadalupe-martinez/. Retrieved May 31, 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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