Escalator 2011/12 winner: Armando Celayo
Armando Celayo is one of ten winners from our 2011/12 Escalator Fiction Competition, as chosen by our judges and mentors. Armando will now enjoy a year’s worth of development from professional writers.
Armando Celayo
Though my folks are from Mexico, I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I moved to England a few years ago to attend the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, where I received a Distinction, was a finalist for the Curtis Brown Award, and was awarded the Prose Fiction MA Prize. My journalism has appeared in PEN International and World Literature Today, where I regularly review books.
My novel,
For the Recovery of Lost Things, focuses on Dolores Moreno: patient mother, stern sister, loyal friend, reluctant mistress. Spanning from the 1960s to the 2030s, from northern Mexico to the Great Plains of America to East Anglia, my novel explores the immigrant experience—its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
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