Sergio Troncoso author of “A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son” Episode 71 Writers Corner Live Show
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Sergio Troncoso is the author of “A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son”, a collection of linked short stories on immigration which Junot Díaz called “a masterwork.”
Troncoso also wrote “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of 2012 in a starred review. The novel also won the Southwest Book Award.
Other books by Troncoso include “Crossing Borders: Personal Essays”, it won the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews.
He is also the author of “The Nature of Truth”, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “impressively lucid.” Publishers Weekly called his first book, “The Last Tortilla and Other Stories”, “Richly satisfying.”
Sergio is currently vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters. He served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Prize for Essays. His work recently appeared in New Letters, The Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Texas Monthly. Sergio’s website is SergioTroncoso.com.
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