Cristina rivera garza biography of alberta

Biography

Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator and critic, and the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009).

Originally written in Spanish, her works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more.

Cristina rivera garza biography of alberta

Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

The first of Rivera Garza’s books to be published was The Iliac Crest (2018).

The second, The Taiga Syndrome, is forthcoming in 2019.

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• Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza, was the winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for memoir or autobiography.
• Read an interview with Cristina Rivera Garza in The Millions.
• The Iliac Crest was chosen by Publishers Weekly fiction editor Gabe Habash as one of h