What awards has the book First Confession, by Montserrat Fontes, received?

Answer 1

...the American Book Award 1997. She has received numerous endowments and grants, including honors for two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars, a Carnegie-Mellon grant and a National Endowment for the Humanities independent study grant.


The 17th annual "Primavera Conference" will be held at Texas A&M International University March 3-4. It is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Minor Program at A&M International, and is held every March in celebration of Women's History Month.

Primavera will begin with a Poster Exhibit, "Brindis a la Mujer," and reception Friday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Room of the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library (room 319).

The Poster Exhibit will feature displays on issues relating to women or gender. "Brindis a la Mujer," a toast on behalf of women in the United States and Mexico, will be offered by two women, one representing the United States and one representing Mexico. A brief reception will follow the Brindis.

Native Laredoan Montserrat FONTES, author of First Confession and Dreams of the Centaur, will REPRESENT the United States during the brindis. In praise of her first novel, Barbara Kingsolver called Fontes "Carson McCullers with a Spanish Accent." The recently published Dreams, which tells the story of the exile and enslavement of the Yaqui Indians, has been compared by critics to Alex Haley's masterpiece Roots.

Answer 2

None that I could find. But her 2nd book "Dreams of the Centaur" (1996) won the American Book Award for Best Novel in 1996