Cristina Rivera Garza has won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her memoir “Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice.” The prize recognizes outstanding print and online journalism, literature, and musical composition.
Rivera Garza’s book was chosen as the Memoir or Autobiography category winner. Liliana’s Invincible Summer tells her family’s story of decades-long suffering due to the death of Cristina’s sister.
Cristina Rivera Garza is an author, translator, and critic. Her most recent books are Liliana’s Invincible Summer (Random House, 2021; Xavier Villaurrutia Award 2021, published in English in 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Award in the non-fiction category), New and Selected Stories (2022), Dolerse. Texts from a wounded country (2011, translated into English in 2020 by Sarah Booker and a finalist for the NBCC Award) and her complete poetry, with the title My Name Is a Body That Is Not / Collected Poems (Lumen, 2024). In 2020 she was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.
She is currently the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston. In addition to those mentioned, Rivera Garza has received the José Donoso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (twice), Anna Seghers, Shirley Jackson, and Roger Callois Ibero-American Literature Awards.
