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Occupation
  
Writer

Nationality
  
United States


Name
  
Katherine Vaz

Role
  
Writer

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Genre
  
Novels, short stories, non-fiction, children’s literature

Books
  
Fado & other stories, Our Lady of the Artichoke, Mariana, The high‑performance triathlete, Swim - swim

Katherine Vaz: Writers Studio Reading Series


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, and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York, 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.

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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.

Vaz's first short story collection Fado & Other Stories received the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and her second collection, Our Lady of the Artichokes, won the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.

Vaz is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) 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 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. 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. She lives in New York City and the Springs area of East Hampton with Christopher Cerf, whom she married in July, 2015.

Novelist Katherine Vaz on inspiration and the writing process


Awards

  • 1997: Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Fado & Other Stories
  • 2007: Prairie Schooner Book Prize, "[1]"
  • Novels

  • Saudade (St. Martin’s Press, June 1994)
  • Mariana (HarperCollins/Flamingo, 1997)
  • Story collections

  • Fado & Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997)
  • Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2008);
  • Non-fiction

  • “Songs of the Soul, Songs of the Night,” The New York Times, Sophisticated Traveler Magazine, September 18, 1994
  • Signatures of Grace (Dutton, 2000). Essay on Baptism. (In conjunction with Mary Gordon, Andre Dubus, Patricia Hampl, Ron Hansen, Paula Huston, Paul Mariani).
  • “Carving the Fruitstones,” for anthology about short fiction, 2004, Greenwood Publications.
  • “This Howling,” essay on the Azores/introduction to novel by João de Melo (My World Is Not of This Kingdom, translated from Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa), Aliform Press, 2003.
  • Children's literature

  • “The Kingdom of Melting Glances” short story in A Wolf at the Door (Simon & Schuster, 2000, in fourth printing)
  • “A World Painted by Birds” in Green Man anthology (Viking, 2002)
  • “My Swan Sister,” title story in Swan Sister and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
  • “Your Garnet Eyes,”in anthology Faery Reel, (Viking, 2004)
  • “Chamber Music for Animals,” in Coyote Road anthology (Viking, 2006)
  • References

    Katherine Vaz Wikipedia