Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman has published five novels and two books of nonfiction. The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the novel Say Her Name won the 2011 Prix Femina étranger. The Ordinary Seaman was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Divine Husband was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murder won the Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and the WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. The Interior Circuit, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times as one of ten best books of the year and received the Blue Metropolis “Premio Azul.” He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Fellow. He was a 2018-19 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He is the founder and co-director of the Premio Aura Estrada, in honor of his late wife, an award for women of the Americas 35 and under who write creative prose in Spanish. His books have been published in sixteen languages.