1. Francisco Goldman was born on 1954 and is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College.
16 Facts About Francisco Goldman
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Francisco Goldman's most recent novel, Monkey Boy, was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Francisco Goldman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Catholic Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father.
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Francisco Goldman studied translation at New York University, and is fluent in English and Spanish.
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Francisco Goldman has taught at Columbia University in the MFA program; Brooklyn College; the Institute of New Journalism in Cartagena, Colombia; Mendez Pelayo Summer Institute in Santander, Spain; the North American Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
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Francisco Goldman was awarded the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship for Fiction, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2010 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
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Francisco Goldman has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's and many other publications.
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Francisco Goldman has published five novels and one book of non-fiction.
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In November 2007, Francisco Goldman acted as guest-fiction editor for Guernica Magazine.
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Francisco Goldman received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and has been a fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.
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Francisco Goldman's books have been translated and published in a total of 15 languages worldwide.
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Francisco Goldman was married to Rebecca Brian, the novelist, in the early 1980s.
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In 2005, Francisco Goldman married Aura Estrada, who died in a bodysurfing accident in Mexico in 2007.
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Francisco Goldman established The Aura Estrada Prize in her honor, to be given every two years to a female writer, 35 or under, who writes in Spanish and lives in the United States or Mexico.
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Francisco Goldman wrote about his wife's death and their relationship in the autobiographical novel Say Her Name.
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Francisco Goldman adapted a portion of it as "The Wave," published in the February 7,2011 edition of The New Yorker.