Margarita Engle
Award Name : Pura Belpré Award
Year of Award : 2014
Award for : Books
Location : Los Angeles, California, United States
Margarita Engle is a Cuban American writer. She became the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009 for The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom.She received Pura Belpré Honor Award in 2014 for The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist.