Kirstin valdez quade biography of christopher

  • Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds and Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.
  • Kirstin Valdez Quade as the guest judge of our 2021 Short Fiction Prize.
  • Kirstin Valdez Quade's most recent book is the novel The Five Wounds (WW Norton & Co., 2021), which won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

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    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    • Night at the Fiestas

    • Stories
    • By: Kirstin Valdez Quade
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Unabridged

    Set in Northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional noggrannhet.

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • Read this author

    • bygd Eager Reader on 05-03-24

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    Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Finalist

    National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize

    National Book Foundation 5 Under 35

    Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award 

    Guggenheim Fellow

     

    “An unputdownable novel, The Five Wounds takes my breath away with its intimate, humorous, and heart-aching portrayal of a New Mexican family. Kirstin Valdez Quade can make a reader laugh and break a reader’s heart in the same breath, and she leaves us, by the end of the novel, in awe of the dazzling power of her storytelling.”

    “The characters in this engrossing novel are created in luminous and memorable detail. Just as the pacing is perfect, so too are the tact and care with which each scene is made. Kirstin Valdez Quade, by concentrating on the truth of small moments, has brought a whole world into focus.”

    “Quade’s ability to depict an entire world within the limitations of a single story is reminiscent of Alice Munro… the final story …is an emo

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    Interview: Kirstin Valdez Quade

    CRAFT is excited to welcome Kirstin Valdez Quade as the guest judge of our 2021 Short Fiction Prize. She spoke with us about her new novel, The Five Wounds, and story collection, Night at the Fiestas. We found her via Zoom in the eaves of the James Merrill house, where she is a Writer-in-Residence. She spoke with short fiction section co-editor Albert Liau and answered questions about craft from Liau and associate editor Suzanne Grove. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.  —CRAFT

     

    Albert Liau:The Five Wounds is a fantastic reading experience. It is an immersive story, and for those of us who are looking, we can find craft elements being used to these degrees that at least I had not seen before. I enjoyed not only the story, but getting a sense of how it was working on the page and through the arc of the entirety of the novel.

    Kirstin Valdez Quade: That is so kind of you to say. Thank you.

     

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