05+-+Gary+Soto+Awards

=Gary Soto's Awards =

====Soto's first collection of poems,//The Elements of San Joaquin//, won the United States Award of the International Poetry Forum in 1976. The New York Times Book Review also honored the book. ====

The second collection, //The Tale of Sunlight// (1978), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. ====Soto's memoir Living Up the Street received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. ====

====In 1993, Soto's production work on the film //The Pool Party// received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Film Excellence from the Association for Library Service to Children. ====

====Soto received the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for //Petty Crimes.// ====


 ====Gary Soto has been honored with the "Discovery"/The Nation Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, and the Levinson Award from Poetry. He has also received the California Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award twice, a Recognition of Merit from the Claremont Graduate School for //Baseball in April//, the Silver Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Tomas Rivera Prize. ====

====In 2010, the Old Administration Building at Fresno City College became the permanent home of the Gary Soto Literacy Museum. ====