' The Wife of the Lion' (2018) in The Kenyon Review.It received the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Trust was published by Riverhead Books on May 3, 2022. PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist (2018).Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2018).

VCU Cabell First Novelist Award (2018).

William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2018).

The book has received the following accolades: Publishers Weekly, Feminist Press, PANK, and The Paris Review named it one of the top books of 2017, and Lit Hub named it one of 'The 20 Best Novels of the Decade.' In the Distance was published on Octoby Coffee House Press. It was named one of the '10 Best Books of 2022' by The Washington Post and The New York Times. His second novel, Trust, was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. In 2019, he won a Whiting Award, which provides '$50,000 each to ten diverse emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.' The award is provided 'based on the criteria of early-career achievement and the promise of superior literary work to come.' His essays and short stories have been published in The Paris Review, Granta, Playboy, The Yale Review, and McSweeney's.Īside from his writing, he is the associate director of the Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, and serves as the managing editor of the Spanish-language journal Revista Hispánica Moderna. ĭiaz has published two novels, which have been published in more than 20 languages.

Career ĭiaz has received fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Ingmar Bergman Estate.

He received a doctorate of philosophy from New York University. Personal life Īlthough Diaz was born in Argentina and raised in Sweden, he has spent most of his life living in the United States. His 2017 novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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