Rolando Hinojosa is a celebrated Chicano author with more than a dozen novels and short story collections including the highly acclaimed The Valley, winner of the Casa De Las Americas international literary prize. On March 13, 2014 Rolando Hinojosa was honored with the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Book Critics Circle. Latinopia asked him about young Chicano and Chicana authors and what they will write about.