Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. [1] He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical novel We the Animals which was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee. We the Animals has been adapted into a film and awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. [2]
Justin Torres was born in 1980 to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent. [3] He was raised in Baldwinsville, New York as the youngest of three brothers. [4] [5] Although his novel We the Animals is not an autobiography, Torres has claimed that the "hard facts" in the novel mirror his own life. [5] City of God by Gil Cuadros, published in 1994, reportedly helped him to come out as homosexual. [6] After leaving his family home, he attended New York University on scholarship but quickly dropped out. After a few years of moving around in the country and taking whatever job came, a friend invited him to sit in a writing course taught at The New School which motivated him to start writing seriously. [4] [7]
His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), [8] won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author). [9] Torres further won the 2012 First Novelist Award for We the Animals. Torres was named by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011. [10] In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him among their 5 under 35 young fiction writers. [11] [12]
In 2010, Torres received his master's degree from Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. [13] He was a recipient of the Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. [5] In the summer of 2016, He was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. [14] He was a former dog walker and a former employee of McNally Jackson, a bookstore in Manhattan. [5] Torres is currently an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. [1]
He has published short fiction for Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.
A movie version of We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, [15] where it won the Next Innovator Prize. [16]
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Rohrleitner, Marion Christina. (2017). Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres' We the Animals. European Journal of American Studies, 11(3), 35 paragraphs. [17]
Barbara Chai, "Keeping It All in the Family" (parents) [18]
Torres page [19]
where he grew up and brief education [4]
Stories and essays he has published [20] (try to locate them)
lives in LA and works as Assis. Prof of Eng at UCLA [1]
bottom - book reviews, interviews, blogs
model article Jesmyn Ward
bold underline [21]
Interview: about being a writer
http://remezcla.com/features/film/we-the-animals-interview-justin-torres/
https://electricliterature.com/interview-justin-torres-author-of-we-the-animals-46e66f611309
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Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. [1] He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical novel We the Animals which was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee. We the Animals has been adapted into a film and awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. [2]
Justin Torres was born in 1980 to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent. [3] He was raised in Baldwinsville, New York as the youngest of three brothers. [4] [5] Although his novel We the Animals is not an autobiography, Torres has claimed that the "hard facts" in the novel mirror his own life. [5] City of God by Gil Cuadros, published in 1994, reportedly helped him to come out as homosexual. [6] After leaving his family home, he attended New York University on scholarship but quickly dropped out. After a few years of moving around in the country and taking whatever job came, a friend invited him to sit in a writing course taught at The New School which motivated him to start writing seriously. [4] [7]
His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), [8] won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author). [9] Torres further won the 2012 First Novelist Award for We the Animals. Torres was named by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011. [10] In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him among their 5 under 35 young fiction writers. [11] [12]
In 2010, Torres received his master's degree from Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. [13] He was a recipient of the Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. [5] In the summer of 2016, He was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. [14] He was a former dog walker and a former employee of McNally Jackson, a bookstore in Manhattan. [5] Torres is currently an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. [1]
He has published short fiction for Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.
A movie version of We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, [15] where it won the Next Innovator Prize. [16]
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help)The article’s content is relevant to the topic.
It is written neutrally.
Each claim has a citation.
Most of the citations reliable, there is one from Salon.com.
Sources:
Rohrleitner, Marion Christina. (2017). Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres' We the Animals. European Journal of American Studies, 11(3), 35 paragraphs. [17]
Barbara Chai, "Keeping It All in the Family" (parents) [18]
Torres page [19]
where he grew up and brief education [4]
Stories and essays he has published [20] (try to locate them)
lives in LA and works as Assis. Prof of Eng at UCLA [1]
bottom - book reviews, interviews, blogs
model article Jesmyn Ward
bold underline [21]
Interview: about being a writer
http://remezcla.com/features/film/we-the-animals-interview-justin-torres/
https://electricliterature.com/interview-justin-torres-author-of-we-the-animals-46e66f611309
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A good start. Can you link to the Torres page? Also, use this space to answer the three questions in re article selection. Keep looking for sources. Did you find a DOI for the Euro Journal of Am Studies? Profhanley ( talk)