![]() Click here to read our recent interview with Quade. Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in New Jersey and teaches at Princeton University. She is the recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, the Rome Prize, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. ![]() ![]() Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. The Five Wounds was selected by a panel of distinguished American writers- Alexander Chee, Susan Choi, Yaa Gyasi, Raven Leilani, and Dinaw Mengestu. Last year’s winner, Raven Leilani, presented Quade with the award, which carries with it a prize of $15,000. Norton & Company)! The award was announced at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit and 200th Anniversary Celebration on Decemat Cipriani 25 Broadway. Congratulations to our 2021 First Novel Prize winner, Kirstin Valdez Quade, author of The Five Wounds (W. ![]()
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