Background
Vaz, Katherine Anne was born on August 26, 1955 in Castro Valley, California, United States. Daughter of August Mark and Elizabeth (Sullivan) Vaz.
(The exotic Clara, born deaf on a Portuguese island steepe...)
The exotic Clara, born deaf on a Portuguese island steeped in legend and mystery, relocates to northern California, where her profound sense of longing drives her to create her own language to express her sensual vitality. A first novel.
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( The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a co...)
The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world. From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl’s first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother’s yearlong struggle with the death of her synesthetic daughter, these deft stories make their world ours.
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(This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcofo...)
This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcoforado, sent to a convent during Portugal's revolt against Spain in the seventeenth century, where she conducts an all-consuming love affair with a French cavalry officer. After being abandoned, she writes him a series of passionate love letters--translated and included here--that become famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, and thereafter. Artists from the poet Rilke and the novelist Stendhal to the painters Matisse and Modigliani have made her one of the world's great romantic icons.
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(This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcofo...)
This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcoforado, sent to a convent during Portugal's revolt against Spain in the seventeenth century, where she conducts an all-consuming love affair with a French cavalry officer. After being abandoned, she writes him a series of passionate love letters--translated and included here--that become famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, and thereafter. Artists from the poet Rilke and the novelist Stendhal to the painters Matisse and Modigliani have made her one of the world's great romantic icons.
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Vaz, Katherine Anne was born on August 26, 1955 in Castro Valley, California, United States. Daughter of August Mark and Elizabeth (Sullivan) Vaz.
Bachelor, University California, Santa Barbara, 1977. Master of Fine Arts, University California, Irvine, 1991.
A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003-2009), a 2006-2007 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade (Street Martin’s Press, 1994), the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. lieutenant was optioned by Marlee Matlin/Solo One Productions and selected in the Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers series. Her second novel, Mariana, (HarperCollins, 1997), was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998 and has been translated into six languages.
Vaz is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) and the Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship (1999).
She has been named by the Luso-Americano as one of the Top 50 Luso-Americanos of the twentieth century and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Library of Congress, housed in the Hispanic Division. The Portuguese-American Women's Association (PAWA) named her 2003 Woman of the Year.
She was appointed to the six-person United States. Presidential Delegation to open the American Pavilion at the World’s Fair/Expo 98 in Lisbon. She lives in New York City and the Springs area of East Hampton with Christopher Cerf, whom she married in July, 2015.
(This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcofo...)
(This novel is based upon the true story of Mariana Alcofo...)
(The exotic Clara, born deaf on a Portuguese island steepe...)
( The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a co...)
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Portuguese-American Leadership Council United States, Authors Guild.
Married Michael Trudeau, May 1, 1994.