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Faculty researcher and writer Cristina Rivera Garza wins the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for memoir
News | 09-05-2024
Linked to the Department of Hispanic Philology, Theory of Literature and Communication within the framework of the María Zambrano postdoctoral research program, Rivera Garza is considered one of the most relevant voices in Latin American literature today
The researcher and writer linked to the Faculty of Philology and Communication within the framework of the María Zambrano research program, Cristina Rivera Garza, has been one of the winners of the latest edition of the Pulitzer Prize awarded annually by the University of Colombia. Specifically, she has been recognized with the award in the category of memoirs for the book Liliana's invincible Summer, in which she explains the murder of her sister that occurred in 1990. The award jury highlighted Rivera Garza's commitment to combination of genres in her work such as uniting memory, investigative journalism from a feminist perspective and poetic biography around the feeling of loss.
Cristina Rivera Garza combines her work as a writer and postdoctoral researcher María Zambrano with the direction of the Creative Writing in Spanish program at the University of Houston, among other activities. Author, translator and critic, she is considered one of the most relevant voices in Latin American literature today and has a long history of recognition: she has won the 2018 Shirley Jackson Prize, the 2021 Nuevo León Alfonso Reyes Prize, the 2021 Mazatlan Prize, the José Donoso Prize 2021, the Xavier Villaurrutia Writers' Prize for Writers 2021 and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize 2022. In 2020 he obtained the MacArthur Fellowship.
Regarding his literary production, some of his most recent books are Autobiografía del algodón (Literatura Random House, 2020), El invencible verano de Liliana (PRH, 2021), and Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country (The Feminist Press, 2020).