Will Nicaragua Find a Resolution to its Political Crisis?
More than 300 people have died in Nicaragua since anti-government protests broke out in April. Will a resolution come?
Marie Arana
Peru | United States | Author
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Marie Arana is the prizewinning author of LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority. Among her numerous books are the National Book Award Finalist American Chica, the novels Cellophane and Lima Nights, the biography Bolívar: American Liberator (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and a sweeping history of Latin America Silver, Sword, and Stone, which the American Library Association named the best nonfiction book of 2019. Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature in 2020, Marie has been a former executive at two major publishing houses, a judge for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, a Latin America columnist for The New York Times, a television commentator on books and publishing, and editor in chief of Book World at The Washington Post. She is also the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress. She currently serves on the boards of PEN America, PEN/Faulkner, the Authors Guild, the American Writers Museum, the Amazon Conservation Association, and the Library of Congress’s Madison Council; and she has also served on the advisory council of the United States Southern Command.
Arana will be awarded the Distinguished Leadership for the Americas Award for Contributions to Literature and Inter-American Understanding at the IX Leadership for the Americas Awards Gala in 2024.
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