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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Francisco Goldman
| image = Z francisco goldman 8304680.JPG
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}
| birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], United States
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| occupation = [[novelist]], [[journalism|journalist]]
| spouse = Aura Estrada
| education = [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart College]];<br>[[New School for Social Research]];<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 |
==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 |
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.
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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 |
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>[http://www.auraestradaprize.org] {{dead link|date=December 2017}}</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''.
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*{{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) }}
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