Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel is a Colombian-American writer and author of Vida,[1] which was a PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award Finalist and winner of the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana,[2] Colombia's national prize in literature. She was the first woman, and Vida the first book in translation, to receive the prize.[3] She is also the author of It's Not Love, It's Just Paris,[4] and the novel The Veins of the Ocean,[5] which won the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.[6] The San Francisco Chronicle called Engel "a unique and necessary voice for the Americas."[7]

Patricia Engel
OccupationAuthor, professor, editor
Notable worksIt's Not Love, It's Just Paris
Vida
The Veins of the Ocean
Website
patriciaengel.com

Early life and education

Engel was born to Colombian parents who immigrated to the United States.[8] She was raised in New Jersey and attended public schools. She earned a bachelor's degree in French and Art History from New York University in 1999[9] and a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction from Florida International University in 2007.[10]

She has studied in Paris and has taught creative writing at the University of Miami[11] and elsewhere.

Career

Engel's work has appeared in The Sun, A Public Space, Harvard Review, and Kenyon Review, among many others, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2017,[12] The Best American Mystery Stories 2014,[13] and more. She was awarded the Boston Review Fiction Prize in 2008[14] for her story "Desaliento," and was the recipient of a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014.[15]

She frequently writes about immigration,[16] biculturalism,[17] and transnationalism[18] in both English and Spanish.[19]

Her first book, Vida, was a finalist for the 2011 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the 2011 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.[20] In 2017, Vida received the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana,[21] Colombia's national prize in literature. Vida was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2010.[22] It also won a Florida Book Award[23] and an Independent Publisher Book Award,[24] and was named an NPR "Best Debut of the Year."[25]

Engel's debut novel, It's Not Love, It's Just Paris,[26] received the International Latino Book Award in 2014.[27]

Her novel The Veins of the Ocean was awarded the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize[28] and named a New York Times Editors' Choice[29] and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year.[30] The novel follows Reina, a woman in her late twenties who is trying to come to terms with the sadness and guilt she feels after her brother Carlito's incarceration. He is sentenced to death in Florida for throwing his girlfriend's daughter, Shayna, off a bridge.

Engel is a literary editor of the Miami Rail,[31] a quarterly publication providing critical coverage of arts, politics and culture. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction and an O. Henry Award for her story "Aguacero".[32]

Personal life

Engel now resides in Miami[33] and New York.

Bibliography

Books
  • 2010 Vida
Translated to Spanish by Alfaguara, 2016
  • 2013 It's Not Love, It's just Paris
Translated to Spanish as No es amor, es solo París by Grijalbo, 2014
  • 2016 The Veins of the Ocean
Translated to French as Les veines de l'océan by Flammarion, 2016
Translated to Spanish as Las venas del océano by Alfaguara, 2017
  • 2021 Infinite Country

Short stories

Essays and criticism
  • "La intimidad de la distancia," Arcadia

Awards and achievements
  • Recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction, 2019
  • Winner of an O. Henry Award, 2019
  • Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
  • Recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2014
  • Winner of the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, 2016
  • Winner of the International Latino Book Award, 2014 and 2011
  • Pen/Hemingway Foundation Fiction Award finalist, 2011
  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist, 2011
  • Paterson Fiction Prize finalist, 2011
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize long list, 2011
  • The Story Prize long list, 2011

References
  1. León, Rachel (12 July 2016). "How Patricia Engel Turned a Short Story Into 'The Veins of the Ocean'". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  2. MARÍN, DANIEL RIVERA (25 January 2017). "Patricia Engel gana el premio Biblioteca Narrativa Colombiana de Eafit". ARCADIA. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  3. Lombardo, María Eugenia (12 May 2017). "Literatura sin fronteras". EL TIEMPO. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  4. Saenz, Benjamin (13 September 2013). "In an Old House in Paris 'It's Not Love, It's Just Paris,' by Patricia Engel". New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. Scholes, Lucy (22 July 2016). "A Novel Explores Tragedy's Aftermath in a Colombian-American Family". New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  6. "2017 Fiction Winner". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  7. De Robertis, Carolina (6 May 2016). "'The Veins of the Ocean,' by Patricia Engel". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  8. Villarreal, Felipe Sánchez. "Patricia Engel, literatura colombiana de migrantes en los EE. UU. de Trump". Vice. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  9. "Praise for Alumna Patricia Engel's Debut Novel". NYU Alumni Blog. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  10. CASE Digital Communications. "Congratulations Alum Patricia Engel!". CASE News. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  11. "University of Miami College of Arts & Science". Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  12. Wolitzer, Meg; Pitlor, Heidi (3 October 2017). The Best American Short Stories. ISBN 9781328766731. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  13. Lippman, Laura; Penzler, Otto (7 October 2014). The Best American Mystery Stories. ISBN 9780544034648. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  14. "Desaliento The winner of Boston Review's 15th annual fiction contest". Boston Review. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  15. "NEA LITERATURE FELLOWSHIPS". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  16. Murphy, Dwyer (2 June 2016). "Patricia Engel on Florida, the Courage of Immigrants, and Writing a Novel of the Americas". Electric Literature. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  17. Queirós, Carlos J. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Chica". AARP. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  18. Araque, Pilar Mejía. ""Escribo sobre los inmigrantes porque es mi mundo", Patricia Engel en Ulibro 2017". periodico15. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  19. Engel, Patricia (25 August 2017). "La intimidad de la distancia: una carta desde Miami". Revista Arcadia. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  20. "Five Young Writers Chosen as Finalists for The New York Public Library's 2011 Young Lions Fiction Award". New York Public Library. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  21. Saldarriaga, John (26 January 2017). "El libro Vida le dio premio a Patricia Engel". elcolombiano. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  22. "100 Notable Books of 2010". New York Times. 24 November 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  23. "General Fiction" (PDF). Florida Humanities. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  24. "2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results Announcement". Independent Publisher. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  25. Freeman, John (16 December 2010). "A Little Bundle Of New: Best Book Debuts Of 2010". NPR Books. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  26. Gay, Roxane. "A Literature of Her Own: 'It's Not Love, It's Just Paris', by Patricia Engel". The Nation. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  27. "Authors". Grove Atlantic. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  28. Temple, Emily (3 October 2017). "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2017 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE". Literary Hub. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  29. "Editors' Choice". New York Times. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  30. De Robertis, Carolina. "'The Veins of the Ocean,' by Patricia Engel". San Francisco Gate. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  31. "The Miami Rails". The Miami Rails. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  32. "Aguacero"
  33. Zuckerman, Alicia. "The Veins Of The Ocean Plumbs The Depths of Florida's Beauty, Pain and Sea". WLRN. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  34. Ploughshares
  35. Engel, Patricia (March 2018). "The Book Of Saints". The Sun.
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