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Patricia Engel



Patricia Engel was born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of Vida and Its Not Love, Its Just Paris. Her new novel, The Veins of the Ocean, is forthcoming from Grove Press in May 2016 and has been noted as one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2016 by Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post.

Vida, her debut, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and Paterson Fiction Award, winner of the Florida Book Award, International Latino Book Award, and Independent Publisher Book Award, and longlisted for The Story Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Additionally, Vida was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a New York Times Editors Choice, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Latina Magazine, and Los Angeles Weekly. Her novel, Its Not Love, Its Just Paris, was winner of an International Latino Book Award, an Elle Readers Prize winner, and a recommended summer read by the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, and Flavorwire.

Patricias books have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, A Public Space, Boston Review, Guernica, and Harvard Review, among other publications, and anthologies including The Best American Mystery Stories. She has received awards including the Boston Review Fiction Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Key West Literary Seminar, Norman Mailer Writers Colony, Hedgebrook, Ucross, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
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Collections
   Vida (2010)
   The Faraway World (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Bridge (2012)
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Victim (2024)
Andrew Boryga
"Andrew Boryga dismantles with audacious precision the lies upholding certain lives and the lethal undertow of truth. Blazing with insight, Victim is part social commentary and part requiem for the values of our time. This is a simply stellar debut."
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Flores and Miss Paula (2023)
Melissa Rivero
"Intimate, elegant, and nuanced, Flores and Miss Paula is as much the story of a vibrant community in flux as it is about the immutability of love and the silences that bind a family. This is an absolute treasure of a novel."
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A Ballad of Love and Glory (2022)
Reyna Grande
"Reyna Grande has given us an epic and exquisitely wrought portrait of the Americas and Mexico's battle for freedom. A Ballad of Love and Glory astonishes with its passion and historical precision. A simply mesmerizing and unforgettable novel."

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Anthologies containing stories by Patricia Engel
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 (2019)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Laura Furman
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The Best American Short Stories 2017 (2017)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Meg Wolitzer

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