Awards & Winners

Nelly Rosario

Date of Birth 1972
Place of Birth Dominican Republic
(Americas, Greater Antilles, Latin America, North America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Nelly Rosario is a Dominican American novelist and creative writing instructor in the MFA Program at Texas State University in San Marcos. Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in engineering from MIT and an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University. After the debut of her novel Song of the Water Saints, Rosario was described by Julia Alvarez as "a Caribbean Scheherazade."

Awards by Nelly Rosario

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nelly Rosario.

2002


Beyond Margins Award
Honored for : Song of the Water Saints