Quinto Sol is a publishing

Publishing

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 company with goals concerning bringing Chicano

Chicano

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 literature to the forefront of American culture and uniting all Chicanos in the United States

United States

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. It was founded in 1967 by Octavio I. Romano and, from 1970–1972, offered the Premio Quinto Sol literary prize—to Tomás Rivera

Tomás Rivera

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, Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya

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, and Rolando Hinojosa

Rolando Hinojosa

Rolando Hinojosa is a novelist, essayist, poet and the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin.-Life and career:...

--each of whom is now considered a major literary voice. The final award was given in 1975 to Estela Portillo Trambley.

After this fourth award, Quinto Sol divided into two separate publishers, Editorial Justa and Tonatiuh International, the latter of which later became TQS Publications.