Return To Sender

Pura Belpré · 2010 · Winner

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Pura Belpré Award	2010	Winner	“Narrative winner — Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez”

About This Book

Recognized by the Pura Belpré Award in 2010.

About the Author

Julia AlvarezDominican-American

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist best known for her novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), which explore themes of immigration, identity, and Dominican history. She has received numerous awards including the National Medal of Arts (2013), Pura Belpré Awards, Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, and F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature.