Cristina Rivera Garza, Mexican writer wins the Pulitzer Prize

MEXICO CITY.- The Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book ‘Liliana’s invincible summer’in which he recounts the femicide of which his sister was a victim.

The announcement was made through the social networks of the Pulitzer Prizes, where mention was also made of Penguin Random House y Hogarth Books for bringing the book to the English language.

Mexican wins the 2024 Pulitzer Prize

Cristina Rivera Garza won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for ‘Liliana’s invincible summer’in which she chronicles the femicide of her sister Liliana during the 1990s.

In July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, a student at Architecture 20 years old, was the victim of femicide by her partner, whom she met in high school and who “made the decision that she would not have a life without him.”

“‘Liliana’s invincible summer’ It is an excavation into the life of a brilliant and bold woman who lacked, like ourselves, the language necessary to identify, denounce and fight once morest sexist violence and intimate partner terrorism.”

The Mexican author expressed that the book is a “gift” for her sister’s existence on earth but also a reminder for all women that “we are going to throw away patriarchy.”

The book has received several favorable reviews and recognitions in recent months.

This Pulitzer joins other awards such as the Xavier Villaurrutia Writers Award for Writers 2021he “Rodolph Walsh” 2022 Award that grants the Gijón Black Week yel Mazatlán Literature Prize 2022.

In addition to ‘The Invincible Summer of Liliana’, the award shortlist included:

‘The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions’, of Jonathan Rosen, y ‘The country of the blind: a memory at the end of sight’of Andrew Leland.

Cristina Rivera Garza, Mexican who won the Pulitzer

Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer, historian and critic originally from Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

She has a degree in Sociology from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a master’s degree and doctorate in Latin American History at the University of Houston, Texasin the USA.

In accordance with The National Collegethe writer is dedicated to telling stories with “poetic breath” and a mixture of the literary”, and remains close to the social sciences.

“The originality of her voice, the poetic breath of her writer and the mixture of the literary with the social sciences have made her a unique exponent of Mexican letters,” describes the institution.

Among the most relevant topics in her texts are migration, mainly the situation on the Mexico-US border, identity, mental health, gender studies, necropolitics and the conditions of literary works.

She has been a professor at UNAM, Tijuana Cultural Centerin the San Diego State University, University of California, University of Washington and of the Stanford University.

She was also co-director and professor of the Humanities Chair of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies campus Toluca.

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