Katherine Vaz
Katherine Vaz | |
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| Born | August 26, 1955 Castro Valley, California |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Novels, short stories, non-fiction, children’s literature |
Katherine Vaz (born August 26, 1955) is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003-9), a 2006-7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,[1] and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York,[2] she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade (St. Martin’s Press, 1994), the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. It was optioned by Marlee Matlin/Solo One Productions and selected in the Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers series.[3]
Her second novel, Mariana, (HarperCollins, 1997), was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998 and has been translated into six languages.[4]
Vaz's first short story collection Fado & Other Stories received the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize [5] and her second collection, Our Lady of the Artichokes, won the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.[6]
Vaz is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) [7] and the Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship (1999). She has been named by the Luso-Americano as one of the Top 50 Luso-Americanos of the twentieth century [8] and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Library of Congress, housed in the Hispanic Division. The Portuguese-American Women’s Association (PAWA) named her 2003 Woman of the Year.[9] She was appointed to the six-person U.S. Presidential Delegation to open the American Pavilion at the World’s Fair/Expo 98 in Lisbon.[10] She lives in New York City and the Springs area of East Hampton with Christopher Cerf, whom she married in July, 2015.[11]
Awards
- 1997: Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Fado & Other Stories [12]
- 2007: Prairie Schooner Book Prize, "[1]" [13]
References
- ^ http://www.radcliffe.edu/print/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.htm
- ^ http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/writer_in_residence/index.htm
- ^ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/awards/index.asp?pid=17967
- ^ http://www.radcliffe.edu/print/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.htm
- ^ http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderhtmlpage.aspx?srchtml=htmlsourcefiles/drueheinz.htm#1
- ^ http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=our-lady-artichokes-and-other-portuguese-american-stories
- ^ http://www.nea.gov/pub/nea_lit.pdf
- ^ http://www.portstudies.umassd.edu/activities/events/events2009/0911032.htm
- ^ http://pawa.org/Women-of-the-Year.html
- ^ http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.aspx
- ^ ["Katherine Vaz and Christopher Cerf: Kermit Will Attend," The New York Times, July 10, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/fashion/weddings/katherine-vaz-and-christopher-cerf-kermit-will-attend.html]
- ^ "Within the Lighted City". Women's Review of Books. 1998-03-01.
Katherine Vaz achieves this broader scope in Fado and Other Stories, a first collection that won the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
- ^ http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=our-lady-artichokes-and-other-portuguese-american-stories
1. http://www.radcliffe.edu/print/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.htm 2. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/awards/index.asp?pid=17967 3. http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderhtmlpage.aspx?srchtml=htmlsourcefiles/drueheinz.htm#1 4. http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=our-lady-artichokes-and-other-portuguese-american-stories 5. http://www.nea.gov/pub/nea_lit.pdf 6. http://www.portstudies.umassd.edu/activities/events/events2009/0911032.htm
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