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SALALMista Peter Briscoe wins Gold Medal for Popular Fiction

Peter Briscoe's novel, Between Memory and Oblivion (Palo Verde Press, 2025) has just won the Gold Medal for Best Popular Fiction at the 2026 International Latino Book Awards!


Novel cover featuring open book, shelves, a portrait, and a cityscapePeter Briscoe, longtime former member of SALALM and Associate University Librarian Emeritus at UC Riverside, would like to announce that his novel, Between Memory and Oblivion (Palo Verde Press, 2025) has just won the Gold Medal for Best Popular Fiction at the 2026 International Latino Book Awards, largest and longest running awards show honoring books written by or about Latinos.

The story is about a young Los Angeles bookseller who searches for rare Latin American literature in Paris, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. More broadly it is a passionate defiance of looming post-literacy.

Congratulations, Peter!


 

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