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Katherine Vaz (born August 26, 1955) is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003-9), a 2006-7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,〔http://www.radcliffe.edu/print/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.htm〕 and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York,〔http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/writer_in_residence/index.htm〕 she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel ''Saudade'' (St. Martin’s Press, 1994), the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. It was optioned by Marlee Matlin/Solo One Productions and selected in the Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers series.〔http://www.barnesandnoble.com/awards/index.asp?pid=17967〕 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.〔http://www.radcliffe.edu/print/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.htm〕 Vaz's first short story collection ''Fado & Other Stories'' received the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize 〔http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderhtmlpage.aspx?srchtml=htmlsourcefiles/drueheinz.htm#1〕 and her second collection, ''Our Lady of the Artichokes'', won the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.〔http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=our-lady-artichokes-and-other-portuguese-american-stories〕 Vaz is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) 〔http://www.nea.gov/pub/nea_lit.pdf〕 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 〔http://www.portstudies.umassd.edu/activities/events/events2009/0911032.htm〕 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.〔http://pawa.org/Women-of-the-Year.html〕 She was appointed to the six-person U.S. Presidential Delegation to open the American Pavilion at the World’s Fair/Expo 98 in Lisbon.〔http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2007kvaz.aspx〕 She lives in New York City and the Springs area of East Hampton with Christopher Cerf, whom she married in July, 2015.〔(Vaz and Christopher Cerf: Kermit Will Attend," The New York Times, July 10, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/fashion/weddings/katherine-vaz-and-christopher-cerf-kermit-will-attend.html )〕 ==Awards== *1997: Drue Heinz Literature Prize, ''(Fado & Other Stories )'' *2007: Prairie Schooner Book Prize, "()" 〔http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=our-lady-artichokes-and-other-portuguese-american-stories〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katherine Vaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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