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{{short description|American novelist}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2017}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Francisco Goldman
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}
| birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], United StatesU.S.
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| occupation = [[novelistNovelist]], [[journalism|journalist]]
| spouse = Aura Estrada
| education = [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart College]];<br>[[NewUniversity Schoolof forMichigan]] Social([[Bachelor Researchof Arts|BA]])<br>[[The New School]];<br>[[New York University]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Michigan]]
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'''Francisco Goldman''' (born 1954) is an American [[novelist]], [[journalism|journalist]], and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1017882 |title=Faculty Profiles |website=Internet2.trincoll.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-11-28}}</ref> His most recent novel, ''Monkey Boy'' (2021), was a finalist for the 2022 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].
 
==Life==
Francisco Goldman was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], to a Catholic [[Guatemala]]n mother and [[Jewish-American]] father.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview12 | location=London | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | first=Maya | last=Jaggi |authorlinkauthor-link=Maya Jaggi| title=A life in writing: Francisco Goldman | date=February 2, 2008}}</ref>
Goldman attended [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart College]], the [[University of Michigan]] and the [[New School for Social Research]] Seminar College. He studied translation at [[New York University]], and is fluent in English and Spanish.
 
He has taught at [[Columbia University]] in the MFA program; [[Brooklyn College]]; the Institute of New Journalism (founded by [[Gabriel GarciaGarcía MarquezMárquez]]) in [[Cartagena, Colombia]]; Mendez Pelayo Summer Institute in [[Santander, Spain]]; the North American Institute in [[Barcelona, Spain]]. He has been a resident of UCross Foundation.
 
Francisco Goldman was awarded the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship for Fiction, and has been a [[Guggenheim Fellow]], and a 2010 Fellow at the [[American Academy in Berlin]].
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==Career==
Francisco Goldman has published fourfive novels and one book of non-fiction. His most recent novel is ''Monkey Boy'', published in 2021 and a finalist for the 2022 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Monkey Boy, by Francisco Goldman (Grove Press)|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/francisco-goldman|access-date=June 3, 2022|website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes]]}}</ref> His prior novel, ''Say Her Name'', was published in April 2011. His first novel, ''The Long Night of White Chickens'' (1992), won the [[Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction]]. His subsequent novels have been finalists for several prizes, including The Pen/Faulkner and Thethe [[International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award]]. ''The Art of Political Murder'' won The Index on Censorship [[T.R. Fyvel Book Award]], The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the 2012 [[Ryszard Kapuscinski International Award for Literary Reportage]]. ''Say Her Name,'' in its French translation, won the 2011 [[Prix Femina Etranger]].
 
In November 2007, Goldman acted as guest-fiction editor for ''[[Guernica Magazine]]''. ''The Ordinary Seaman'' was named one of the 100 Best American Books of the Century by ''The [[Hungry Mind Review]].'' He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and has been a fellow at the Cullman Center at the [[New York Public Library]]. His books have been translated and published in a total of 15 languages worldwide.
 
In the 1980s, Goldman covered the wars in Central America as a contributing editor to ''[[Harper's]]'' magazine. Goldman's 2007 book, ''The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?,'' is a nonfiction account of the assassination of [[Guatemala]]n Catholic Bishop [[Juan José Gerardi Conedera]] by the Guatemalan military. The book, an expansion on his article in ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{Cite news | magazine = Publishers Weekly | date= September 2007 | title=Francisco Goldman}}</ref> represents the culmination of years of journalistic investigation.<ref>{{Cite journal | first= Francisco | last= Goldman | title=The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? | publisher= Grove Press | year=2007 | postscript= <!-- Bot inserted parameter. Either remove it; or change its value to "." for the cite to end in a ".", as necessary. -->{{inconsistent citations}}}}</ref>
 
It was selected as a [[New York Times Notable Book]], and a Best Book of the Year at ''Washington Post Book World,'' ''The Economist,'' ''The Chicago Tribune,'' ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' and the ''New York Daily News.'' The book has been widely acclaimed. The book is the winner of the 2008 TR Fyvel Freedom of Expression Book Award from the [[Index on Censorship]] and of the 2008 Duke University-WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America) Human Rights Book Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2008 [[CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction|Golden Dagger Award in non-fiction]] and for the inaugural [[Warwick Prize for Writing]]. The paperback edition was published with an Afterword meant to rebut critics in a "disinformation campaign" against the conclusions of the book.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}
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==Marriage and family==
Goldman was married to Rebecca (Bex) Brian, the novelist, in the early 1980s. They divorced in 1985.
In 2005, Goldman married Aura Estrada, who died in a [[bodysurfing]] accident in Mexico in 2007. He established The Aura Estrada Prize in her honor, to be given every two years to a female writer, 35 or under, who writes in Spanish and lives in the United States or Mexico.<ref>[{{Cite web|url=http://www.auraestradaprize.org]com/indexingles.html|title=Aura {{deadEstrada linkPrize|access-date=December 20172018-11-05}}</ref>
 
Goldman wrote about his wife's death and their relationship in the autobiographical novel ''Say Her Name.'' He adapted a portion of it as "The Wave," published in the February 7, 2011 edition of ''The New Yorker''.
 
==Works==
* {{cite book|authorfirst=Francisco |last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=The Long Night of White Chickens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0JyekS8TiQC|year=1992|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8021-4460-79780802144607}}
* {{cite book|authorfirst=Francisco |last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=The Ordinary Seaman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMHNN4aLTtQC|dateyear=1997|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-55584-640-49781555846404}}
* {{cite book|authorfirst=Francisco |last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=The Divine Husband: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMRO5af9K2oC|dateyear=2004|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-55584-638-19781555846381}}
* {{cite book|authorfirst=Francisco |last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gS85Xzc3CB4C|dateyear=July 2, 2014|publisher=Grove Press|isbn=978-0-8021-2256-89780802122568}}
* {{cite book|first=Francisco|last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=Say Her Name|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_M8j_gHpZAC|dateyear=5 April 2011|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8021-9567-89780802195678}}
* {{cite book|first=Francisco|last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Mexico City Chronicles)|urlyear=|date=5 April 2011|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated|isbn=}}
* {{cite book|first=Francisco|last=Goldman|author-mask=2|title=Monkey Boy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3KQzgEACAAJ|year=2022|publisher=Grove Press|isbn=9780802157676}}
 
===Selected journalism, criticism and short fiction===
* ''The New Yorker;'' ''New York Times Sunday Magazine;'' ''New York Review of Books;'' ''Book Forum;'' ''Esquire;'' ''Bomb''
* In Mexico: ''Letras Libres; Gatopardo; Equis''.
* Prologue to ''The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll,'' by [[Alvaro Mutis]], published by New York Review of Books Classics, 2003.
* "Murder Comes for the Bishop", ''The New Yorker,'' March 15, 1999.
* "The Great Bolaño", ''The New York Review of Books,'' July 19, 2007.
* "Chapter 1: I Drank the Water", ''New York Times,'' June 27, 2007.
* "THE THOROUGHLY DESIGNED AMERICAN CHILDHOOD; A Robot For the Masses", November 28, 2004.
* "In The Shadow Of The Patriarch", ''New York Times,'' November 2, 2003.
* "Guatemala's Fictional Democracy", ''New York Times,'' November 3, 2003.
* "The Autumn of the Revolutionary", ''New York Times,'' August 23, 1998.
* "In Guatemala, All Is Forgotten", ''New York Times,'' December 23, 1996
* "In a Terrorized Country", ''New York Times,'' April 17, 1995.
* "Ending Up in Downsville", (book review) ''New York Times'', June 20, 1993.
* "Poetry and Power in Nicaragua", ''New York Times'', March 29, 1987.
* Four Op-ed pieces in the ''New York Times'', and two in the ''Los Angeles Times.''
 
===Anthologized===
* “Mexico DF” in the Beacon Press ''Best of 2001.''
* ”Moro like Me” in ''Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural.''
 
===Translations===
* Two short stories by Gabriel GarciaGarcía MarquezMárquez in ''Playboy Magazine'', one of which, “The Trail of your *Blood in the Snow,” won that year’s National Magazine Award for fiction.
 
===Interviews===
* "Susan Choi Talks with Francisco Goldman", ''The Believer'', August 2004.
* Francisco Goldman talks to Semi Chellas", ''Brick: A Literary Journal'', Winter 2004 (Issue 74).
* "Literary Guisado: An Interview with Francisco Goldman" by Marion Winik, ''The Austin Chronicle'', June 6, 1997.
* Francisco Goldman discusses his new book "The Divine Husband", ''NPR Morning Edition'', October 27, 2004.
* Interview with Francisco Goldman by Whit Coppedge, ''Pif Magazine'', October 30, 2008.
* {{cite news| title='Say Her Name' with author Francisco Goldman | work=Writers and Company | url=http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Writers+and+Company/2011/ID/2170781667/| date= | author= CBC Radio, interview by Eleanor Wachtel (recorded October 2011 at the International Festival of Authors, first broadcast November 27, 2011) }}
 
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Francisco Goldman}}
* [http://franciscogoldman.com Francisco Goldman's Official Web Site]
* [http://groveatlantic.com Grove/Atlantic, Inc.]
* [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=4223 Video: Truth and Reconciliation: A National Reckoning] PEN World Voices at LIVE from the New York Public Library May 4, 2008
* [http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/francisco_goldman_on_jos_mart/ Lecture by Goldman on [[José Martí]]'s years in New York (1878-1895)], from the Key West Literary Seminar, 2004]
* {{cite news| work=New York Times| title= Murder in Guatemala| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Curiel-t.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin| date=September 30, 2007 | author= Carolyn Curiel }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090915205021/http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/451/six_stories_guestedited_by_fra_2/ Essay, "Six Stories Guest-Edited by Francisco Goldman"]
* [http://www.americanacademy.de American Academy in Berlin.]
* [http://bombmagazine.org/article/3068/francisco-goldman Francisco Goldman by Silvana Paternostro] ''[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]''
* [http://bombmagazine.org/article/2665/francisco-goldman Francisco Goldman] by [[Esther Allen]] ''[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]''
 
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