Awards & Winners

Cristina García

Date of Birth 04-July-1958
Place of Birth Havana
(Cuba, Cuba Island)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Cristina Garcia
Profession Journalist, Novelist, Author
Cristina García is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. After working for Time Magazine as a researcher, reporter, and Miami bureau chief, she turned to writing fiction. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters and Monkey Hunting, and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. Her fourth novel, A Handbook to Luck, was released in hardcover in 2007 and came out in paperback in April 2008. In 2009, Garcia was hired as the Visiting Affiliate Professor and Black Mountain Institute Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has other colleges including the University of Texas-Austin, Texas Tech University, and Texas State University-San Marcos, where she is the 2012-14 University Chair in Creative Writing.

Awards by Cristina García

Check all the awards nominated and won by Cristina García.

1997


Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
Honored for : The Aguero Sisters

1996


1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Dreaming in Cuban