Background
Rick Collignon was born on October 1, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Originally from the Chicago area, he has lived in northern New Mexico for over 30 years.
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Madewell Brown
(As recorded in Rick Collignon's second novel, Perdido, a ...)
As recorded in Rick Collignon's second novel, Perdido, a tall black man with one arm longer than the other walked into Guadalupe, New Mexico one morning about 50 years ago, stayed pretty much to himself for seven years, and then walked back out of town. No one knew who he was or what became of him. Now, as his last act, an old man named Ruffino Trujillo tells his grown son Cipriano a story about what became of the black man.
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2009
The Journal of Antonia Montoya
(When little José Montoya’s parents are killed one August ...)
When little José Montoya’s parents are killed one August morning by a cow, his Tia Ramona and his Tio Flavio are troubled by how best to raise the boy. After the funeral, they drive to their childhood home behind the village office, but before they reach the house, the front door swung open and Ramona’s grandfather, Epolito Montoya, who had been dead for thirteen years, stood in the doorway.
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2009
Perdido
(In Perdido, Rick Collignon returns to the same magical vi...)
In Perdido, Rick Collignon returns to the same magical village he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya. In Perdido, Collignon returns to the same magical town he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya. Once again mixing present and past, living and dead, he delivers a forthright and unflinching examination of race, belonging, and identity.
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2010
A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia
(The gentle-hearted Flavio Montoya returns, now as the age...)
The gentle-hearted Flavio Montoya returns, now as the aged scion of his family, still tending his sister Ramona’s fields and wondering how all of his family could have died before him. When the mountains surrounding Guadalupe erupt in flames, the history of the village seems to be set loose in the smoke. The dead arrive and the silent speak. When Flavio is accused of starting the fire that quickly threatens to consume the village, the disaster becomes one more mystery that he must fold into his own memory, though he cannot quite understand any of it.
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2010
Rick Collignon
Edit ProfileEducation
Rick dropped out of two colleges and never took any writing classes. His training was reading, which he did and still does voraciously.
Career
Rick Collignon burst upon the literary scene with the widely reviewed and well-received novel titled "The Journal of Antonio Montoya." The novel concerns a series of supernatural events occurring in the town of Guadeloupe, New Mexico, after an accident that leaves a young boy orphaned. A number of critics, including Lawrence Olszewski, reviewing the novel for Library Journal, linked Collignon’s surreal situations to the writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the renowned South American writer. But critics were mixed in their appreciation for the novel as a whole.
Though his first novel was published only after working as a roofer for twenty years, Collignon’s next novel, "Perdido", was published only a year after The Journal of Antonio Montoya. This second novel is also set in Guadeloupe, New Mexico, and inhabited almost exclusively by Mexican Americans.
In the final installment of the Guadalupe trilogy, "A Santo in the Image of Cristóbal García", an elderly Flavio Montoya, Ramona's brother, is the protagonist. Reality and imagination blur as many of the story's events are told through flashbacks and Flavio's dreams. Using these devices, Collignon provides readers with the history of the town and its founder, Cristóbal García, answering many questions readers may have had from the first and second novels.
Achievements
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Rick Collignon is highly famous for his books The Journal of Antonio Montoya, Perdido, A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia, and Madewell Brown, all set in the town of Guadalupe. The Journal of Antonio Montoya has been translated into twelve languages, and A Santo in the Image of Cristóbal García has been translated into ten languages.
Works
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Madewell Brown
(As recorded in Rick Collignon's second novel, Perdido, a ...)
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A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia
(The gentle-hearted Flavio Montoya returns, now as the age...)
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The Journal of Antonia Montoya
(When little José Montoya’s parents are killed one August ...)
2009 -
Perdido
(In Perdido, Rick Collignon returns to the same magical vi...)
2010
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Madewell Brown
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Quotations: "Writing for me is a struggle. I wouldn't do it if I didn't thrive on it. I think if you're going to write you're going to write, no matter what else is going on in your life."
Connections
Rick Collignon has three children.
