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Patricia wins the John Dos Passos Prize
Patricia is longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Patricia is a finalist for the John Dos Passos Prize
Interview with The New York Time Book Review’s “By the Book”
Interview with WAMC’s The Roundtable
Interview with WLRN Sundial
Interview about The Faraway World with NPR’s Morning Edition
Interview about The Faraway World with NPR’s Marginalia
The story “Libélula” from The Faraway World is featured in Oprah Daily
The story “The Bones of Cristóbal Colón” from The Faraway World is featured in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading
Infinite Country is longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
Infinite Country is longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Infinite Country is a NEA Big Read Selection for 2022-2023
Infinite Country wins the New American Voices Award
Interview with The Book Show
Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras for Bomb Magazine
Interview with ReadMore Podcast
Interview with Otherppl Podcast
Interview with Seth Myers Podcast
Interview with NPR’s All Things Considered
Interview with Zzyzzva
Interview with Literary Hub
Grace Han speaks to Spined Magazine about designing the cover of Infinite Country
Infinite Country is Reese’s Book Club pick for March
Convesation with Imbolo Mbue for Entertainment Weekly
Interview with Esquire Magazine where Infinite Country is their Book Club pick for March
Interview with Kirkus Fully Booked Podcast
Interview with The History of Literature Podcast
Infinite Country is “Briefly Noted” in The New Yorker
Interview with Latinos Out Loud
Infinite Country is Amerie’s Book Club pick for March
Interview with Reading Women Podcast
Interview with Fierce Womxn Writing Podcast
Interview with Book Talk Podcast
Interview with Latina Media Co
Interview with Publisher’s Weekly
Interview with Zibby Owens’ Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books Podcast
Interview with NBC News
Listed to the Infinite Country Playlist on Largehearted Boy
Infinite Country is an Amazon Best Book of the Month
Infinite Country is a Book of the Month Club selection for February
Infinite Country on Oprah Magazine’s list of the “55 Most Anticipated Books of 2021”
Patricia’s “Memories of Nochebuena”
Patricia is the recipient of a 2019 O. Henry Award for “Aguacero”
Patricia has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction
Patricia is named Best Author of 2019 by the Miami New Times
Interview with WLRN Radio
Interview with Latino Studies
Interview with Prairie Schooner
Interview with The Kenyon Review
Interview with Revista DC (Colombia)
Interview with El Tiempo (Colombia)
Interview with El Universal (Venezuela)
The Veins of the Ocean is awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Veins of the Ocean is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Interview with WLRN Radio
Interview with El Tiempo (Colombia)
Interview with Vice (Colombia)
Interview with El Tiempo (Colombia)
Interview with El Espectador (Colombia)
Interview with El Colombiano (Colombia)
Patricia wins Colombia’s Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, making her the first woman writer and Vida the first book in translation to win the award
Interview with Revista Semana (Colombia)
Vida is a finalist for Colombia’s Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana
Interview with Words on a Wire
Interview with Kweli Journal
Interview with The Rumpus
The Veins of the Ocean is named a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Interview with Chicago Review of Books
From Ploughshares: “The Veins of the Ocean and the Politics of Grief”
Interview with Electric Literature
Interview with Read More
Read an excerpt from the first chapter of The Veins of the Ocean at Longreads
Interview with Writers on Writing
Musical playlist companion to The Veins of the Ocean via Largeheartedboy
Patricia’s list of “10 Great Novels of Exile and Dislocation” for Electric Literature
Interview with El Colombiano (Colombia)
Santiago Gamboa discusses the Spanish translation of Vida in El País (Colombia)
Interview with Revista Semana (Colombia)
Interview with 201 Magazine
The Veins of the Ocean makes Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post’s lists of the Most Anticipated Books of 2016
Interview with Revista Credencial (Colombia)
Interview with Revista Semana (Colombia)
Interview with El Tiempo’s Revista Carrusel of Colombia
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris is featured on The New York Times Book Review’s Paperback Row
Interview with Colombia’s Kienyke
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris is released in Spain and Colombia
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris is now available in paperback
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris is the winner of an International Latino Book Award
Patricia’s story, “Aida,” has been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2014
Patricia is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
Interview with Words on a Wire
Interview (in Spanish) with Colombia’s Revista Semana
Interview with the Ridgewood News
Interview with the New York Daily News
Read about the musical inspirations for It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris on Largehearted Boy and listen to the playlist of songs on Spotify
Edwidge Danticat talks to The Atlantic about the idea that “All immigrants are artists” as portrayed in It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
Interview with the Breakwater Review
Take an interactive tour through the real places that inspired It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris wins the Elle Magazine Readers’ Prize for September 2013
Explore the official It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris tumblr
Interview with The Sun-Sentinel
Interview (in Spanish) with SubUrbano Magazine
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris makes the recommended summer reading guides of the L.A Times,Time Out New York, and Flavorwire
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and independent bookstores everywhere
Vida is released in France and Poland
Patricia is named Our Word Writer-in-Residence at Columbia University
Vida is a finalist for the New York Public Library’s 2011 Young Lions Fiction Award
Vida is a finalist for the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award
Vida wins an Independent Publisher Book Award
Vida wins a Florida Book Award
Vida wins first place in the International Latino Book Awards
Vida is named a New York Times Notable Book of 2010
Patricia is featured in The Daily Beast’s “Best New Writers” series
Vida is named one of NPR’s Best Book Debuts of the Year
Patricia is named a “Latina Who Shaped 2010” by The New York Daily News
Interview with Saw Palm
Interview with Gulf Stream Magazine
Interview with AARP
Interview (in Spanish) with Colombia’s Revista Arcadia
Michiko Kakutani praises Vida in The New York Times
Vida is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection
Vida gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly