MEXICO CITY (apro).- For the book that tells the story of the femicide of her sister Liliana, the Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize, Columbia University announced.
It won in the Memoirs or Autobiographies category, where the books were also selected: “The best minds: a story of friendship, madness and the tragedy of good intentions”, by Jonathan Rosen and “The country of the blind: a memoir At the End of Sight”, by Andrew Leland.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper editor, who left money to Columbia University after his death in 1911. A portion of his legacy was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prizes. , which were first awarded in 1917.
“On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, my sister, was the victim of a femicide. She was a 20-year-old girl, an architecture student. She had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not leaving her. His decision was that she would not have a life without him. Liliana’s Invincible Summer is an excavation into the life of a brilliant and bold woman who lacked, like ourselves, the language necessary to identify, denounce, and fight against. sexist violence and intimate partner terrorism. This book is to celebrate his time on earth and to tell him that, of course, we are going to throw away the patriarchy,” the book details.
Rivera Garza studied Sociology at the FES Acatlán of the UNAM, and a master’s degree and doctorate in Latin American History at the University of Houston. She has been a professor at UNAM, UAEM, San Diego State University; the University of Pauw, Indiana and the ITESM, Toluca campus, where she is also co-director of the Chair of Humanities.
