(1955-08-26) August 26, 1955 (age 68) Castro Valley, California, US
Occupation
Writer
Genre
Novels, short stories, non-fiction, children’s literature
Spouses
Christopher Cerf
(m. 2015)
Katherine Vaz (born August 26, 1955) is a Portuguese-American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003–2009), a 2006–2007 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 Above the Salt, which was chosen as one of People Magazine's Best New Books to Read in November, 2023.[3]
Vaz's novel Saudade (St. Martin’s Press, 1994) is 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 & Noble Discover Great New Writers series.[4]
Her 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.[1]
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]
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^"2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellows - Katherine Vaz". Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
^Nir, Sarah Maslin (2015-07-10). "Katherine Vaz and Christopher Cerf: Kermit Will Attend". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-05-16. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
KatherineVaz (born August 26, 1955) is a Portuguese-American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003–2009), a 2006–2007...
published in 2019 by Tagus Press. A list of accomplished writers include: KatherineVaz, Frank X. Gaspar, Millicent Borges Accardi, Sam Pereira, Nancy Vieira...
been recognized by numerous authorities in the genre. American writer, KatherineVaz, for example, judged Khan the winner of the Hunger Mountain, Howard...
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included fiction from Pulitzer Prize recipient Robert Olen Butler, KatherineVaz, and an interview with Yann Martel, the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning...
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Baxter 1996 Edith Pearlman Vaquita and Other Stories Rosellen Brown 1997 KatherineVaz Fado and Other Stories George Garrett 1998 Barbara Croft Necessary Fictions...
authors including Ron Hansen, Paul Mariani, Mary Gordon, Patricia Hampl, KatherineVaz, and Murray Bodo to contribute personal essays on the Catholic sacraments...
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ISBN 978-0-631-19525-2. Read 2005, pp. 82–85. Service 2005, pp. 47–49. Adams, Katherine H.; Keene, Michael L. (10 January 2014). After the Vote Was Won: The Later...
Bernardino of Siena, Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1380) 1449 – Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches 1449 – Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b...
modern town of Weipa on Cape York. Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through and navigated the Torres Strait Islands. The Dutch...
held Leicester East Labour Claudia Webbe Labour Previous incumbent, Keith Vaz, did not stand Leicester South Labour Co-operative Jon Ashworth Labour Co-operative...
(elected) 16 August (installed) Later Baron Hoo and Hastings 162 Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches d. 1449 11 July 1445 (elected) 16 August...
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