Award Winning Books by
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
| In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura’s death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling ...
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| In this lyrical and spellbinding book, Goldman tells the stories of 15 Central American men who have come to America--most on their life savings--to staff the crew of the "Urus". The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a veteran of the war in Guatemala, a young man haunted by the loss of his last love. As he works up the courage to start a new life, his story and those of his shipmates come to life, illum...
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| In 1981, a 21-year-old Guatemalan-American writer burst onto the literary scene with a string of short stories in Esquire and Playboy. Over the next five years, in response to the horrors occurring in Central America, Francisco Goldman wrote highly acclaimed journalism for Harper's Magazine. Now he returns to fiction with this bicultural novel set in Guatemala....
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Francisco Goldman Award Stats |
Major Prize* Nominations |
4 |
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Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
4 |
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Pulitzer Prize Wins |
0 |
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Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
1 |
Monkey Boy · |
National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
0 |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
0 |
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National Book Award Wins |
0 |
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National Book Award Nominations |
0 |
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Man Booker Prize Wins |
0 |
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Man Booker Prize Nominations |
0 |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
0 |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
2 |
The Long Night of the White Chickens · The Ordinary Seaman · |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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